“My object,” Marx said, “is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.” “Communism begins where atheism begins.” Thus, as per my first column in this series, to Marx and his followers, history is a ...

FARGO — The ghost of Karl Marx has been hovering lately. Though often disguised, the vapory silhouette of a bearded man from the 1800s, whose ideas have led to countless human atrocities, still haunts ...

To the editor: Life sometimes imitates art. It sure did in Mary Gabriel’s op-ed article, “A letter to Karl Marx on his 200th birthday.” Gabriel writes, “Don’t get me wrong. The initial benefits of ...

Marxism refers to the school of thought inspired by Karl Marx’s analysis of capitalism. Communism is a political system of government or a party that abolishes private property. Communism and Marxism ...

To a carpenter with a hammer,” it has been said, “every problem looks like a nail.” To Karl Marx, assembling communism from a wild and variegated international socialism, every social problem in the ...

Europe had never seen anything like the Revolutions of 1848. Beginning in January of that year, a wave of uprisings (nearly 50 in all) convulsed the continent, creating instability from Paris to ...

When I read Cameron Hilditch’s review of my new book, The Devil and Karl Marx, I sighed and said to myself, “This is why our side loses.” Consider: I’ve written a 461-page book documenting the ...

Just because Zohran Mamdani and President Donald Trump in their Oval Office meeting appeared to bury the hatchet, my opinion of communism/socialism has not changed. I believe that if Mamdani ...

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“Marxism wasn’t a bad idea that went wrong. It was a bad idea.”—Richard Pipes, Communism. Communism failed everywhere, and oceans of blood were the result. Though dozens of attempts worldwide were ...