His sculptures examine how the body is so often objectified and repurposed for someone else’s convenience or utility.

As a theory of society, Marxism’s “laws” have been mocked by events, such as the increasing prosperity of the workers and the near disappearance of cyclical economic crisis.

Marx’s theory of alienation remains relevant as AI reshapes the modern workplace experience. Automation can strip workers of control, creativity, and connection, increasing emotional detachment ...

Alienation constitutes capitalism’s unsocial and anti-social character. Marx argues that the division of labour, class structures and commodity exchange result in the domination of society by ...

Karl Marx’s theory of alienation reveals how human activity creates society and how we have the potential to create a different future ...

This was the fundamental insight of Marx’s theory of labor and alienation: that a social system had been erected to coercively extract something from people that had previously, in a deep sense ...

Is Marxism is the solution to all capitalism’s problems. Or a threat to America’s soul. To some, Marxism is the solution to all capitalism’s problems. To others, it’s a major threat to ...

Marxism is an economic and political theory that examines the flaws inherent in capitalism. It’s primarily based on the work of German philosopher and economist Karl Marx. Marxist theories were ...

The labor theory of value: Central to Marx’s thought, this theory holds that the value of a commodity is determined by the labor necessary to produce it. Marx argued that labor is the source of all ...

In Sally Rooney’s books, often dismissed as ‘romance novels,’ love is always being bought, sold, or reduced to tropes. This is also what makes it real, writes Andrea Long Chu.

Indifference was the world’s first reaction to Karl Marx’s magnum opus. In 1867, when the first volume of “Capital” was published in German, it was greeted with such silence that the ...