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Jonathan Dove’s entertaining score has brilliant leads but less brilliant words
A Japanese philosophy professor has scored an unlikely hit with a book denouncing unbridled consumption
Marx reportedly said that the money he earned from ‘Capital’ would ‘not even pay for the cigars I smoked writing it’
At first, big business wanted Trump. But now he refuses to go
The former Greek finance minister and economist chats to Alphaville.
Programmes aimed at young people suggest a shift in Communist party thinking
Students continue to back workers in dispute over trade union rights
Berlin academic leads 100-year project stymied by war and executions
Men’s rights groups see the search for partners as a competition to maximise ‘status’
An upbeat biography places the great thinker in his 19th-century context
Two hundred years after the philosopher’s birth, two staunch believers in capitalism rewrite ‘The Communist Manifesto’
A syllabus that does not integrate the insights of other disciplines fails students
A play about the thirtysomething Karl Marx serves as an unconvincing manifesto for this London theatre
An overview of Marxist thought works as both introduction and contemporary critique
We face not monotony in our jobs but the temptations of endless variety
We should reacquaint with history and end the pretence that the city’s openness began in 2003
While Marxism has been redefined for every era, a new history examines the ideas and climate that shaped its founder
Banking as seen from the belly of the beast
Economies may be limping back to health, but the political elites are still reeling
The importance of the role of the state and law in facilitating the capitalist dynamic
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