Tag: Karl Marx

• Tuesday, May 8th 2018 - 08:25 UTC

  Should we celebrate Karl Marx on his 200th birthday?

  

  By Barbara Foley (*)
  
  Some would argue that Karl Marx, author of “Capital,” has been proven wrong on just about everything he wrote. The founder of scientific socialism was born 200 years ago on May 5.

• Saturday, May 5th 2018 - 08:58 UTC

  Beijing triggers Marx controversy in Germany with statue donation to his home town of Trier

  

  Chinese gift of a statue of Karl Marx is dividing Germans, as his home town of Trier prepares to unveil it 200 years after his birth. Marx co-wrote the Communist Manifesto, which said that all human history had been based on class struggle. His work remains controversial in Europe but is presented by China as central to its way of governing.