LEADERS of the 75 Communist parties meeting in Moscow—and those conspicuously absent—often argue bitterly about what their faith, Marxism, means. More interesting is the question of what Marxism does.

1. Ideological disorder within many of the international groups which condemn Stalinism and claim to be holding the revolutionary Marxist line. Uncertainty of such groups as to what they call analysis ...

More than 40 years after the high points of the women's liberation movement of the 1960s and '70s, women not only don't have equal rights, but sexism and oppression has grown worst in a number of ...

'Orthodox' Marxist crisis theories have, in neglecting Marxism's philosophical roots, wandered into a cul-de-sac of their own logical empiricist making and are unable to offer, therefore, a viable ...

When a Rhode Island local school district allegedly considered suing one woman for the high crime of asking for information about school curricula, many were shocked, and rightfully so. To be sued for ...

Søren Mau’s Mute Compulsion offers a unique and relatable entry into the social and economic dimensions of modern Marxist thought. Ask any two Marxists to define Marxism, and you will likely get at ...

Critical race theory is fast becoming America’s new institutional orthodoxy. Yet most Americans have never heard of it — and of those who have, many don’t understand it. This must change. We need to ...

In last week’s column about critical race theory, I said that I had barely scratched the surface of this complex movement. To dig deeper, I turned to a collection of essays by the movement’s founders ...

Wikipedia had an entry on “Cultural Marxism” but it redirects the reader to Cultural Marxism Conspiracy Theory. I read on, and discovered that, according to Wikipedia, Cultural Marxism is “a far-right ...

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