Reading ‘Capital’ on Labor Day

Staff / Truthdig Sep 5, 2011 Is there a better way to honor the working-class struggle than to study Karl Marx's "Capital" on Labor Day? How about reading along with distinguished City University of New York professor David Harvey, who after almost 40 years is still teaching the book? (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Nouriel Roubini: Capitalism Must Be Saved From Itself

Staff / Truthdig Aug 15, 2011 Economist and New York University professor Nouriel Roubini explains that globalization, reckless lending and borrowing, and the redirection of income and wealth from industries dependent upon human labor and well-being to those composed mainly of capital (more). Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Columbus, Marx and Zinn Go to Bolivia

Richard Schickel / Truthdig Feb 22, 2011 What is ironically fictional in "Even the Rain's" story is the intrusion on a volatile situation of a film crew intent on portraying Christopher Columbus’ not entirely benign arrival in the New World. What is ironically fictional in "Even the Rain's" story is the intrusion on a volatile situation of a film crew intent on portraying Columbus’ not entirely benign arrival in the New World. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

O’Donnell Drops the Marx Bomb in Delaware Debate

Staff / Truthdig Oct 15, 2010 Senate candidate and tea party favorite Christine O'Donnell has done her darnedest to lose the whole "witch" label as she makes her play to join Delaware's ranks in Congress, but she was more than ready to brand opponent Chris Coons with her own scary term in their debate on Wednesday. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Mr. Fish in Conversation With Graham Nash

Mr. Fish / Truthdig Apr 3, 2010 I'd gone to Atlantic City in August of 2009 to see Crosby, Stills and Nash to be reminded of the exquisite outrage that they, along with Neil Young, had so famously hurled into the hellish maelstrom that was the Vietnam War. Dig deeper ( 19 Min. Read )

Marx Gets a Boost from the Vatican

Staff / Truthdig Oct 27, 2009 Although Pope Benedict XVI made a point of denouncing institutionalized Marxism two years ago, the Vatican's own newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, last week cast a more redemptive light on Karl Marx's ideas by going to the primary source and validating the German economist's critiques of capitalism. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Biden to Florida Reporter: ‘Are You Joking?’

Staff / Truthdig Oct 26, 2008 During an interview with Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden, Orlando's WFTV news anchor Barbara West came right out with some familiar-sounding questions: Is Barack Obama ashamed of his close ties to ACORN? Isn't Barack Obama kind of just like Karl Marx? Where could West have gotten these ideas? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Reality Catches Up to the Free Market

William Pfaff / Truthdig Sep 19, 2008 Karl Marx, were he still about, would surely be interested in the report that unregulated free-market capitalism has died in a flash, by its own hand; whereas it took 70 years and a Cold War to bring down the Marxist economy established in the Soviet Union following the Bolshevik Revolution. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

McCain Wishes Castro a Speedy Retirement From Land of the Living

Staff / Truthdig Feb 23, 2008 Sen. John McCain, campaigning in Indianapolis, said Cuba won't be better off under Fidel Castro's fraternal successor, Raul Castro, whom he called "worse in many respects than Fidel was," and the Republican front-runner voiced the hope that Fidel will meet his commie maker, Karl Marx, "very soon." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Pope Blasts Atheism in New Encyclical

Staff / Truthdig Dec 1, 2007 Atheist authors Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris have some new material to work with, thanks to the latest official release from Pope Benedict XVI, who critiqued the work of Karl Marx, warned against excessive faith in scientific progress and condemned atheism, which he believes has led to some of the "greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice" in recent history. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Romney: Hillary’s ‘in With Karl Marx’

Staff / Truthdig Jul 23, 2007 Sizing up Hillary Clinton's economic outlook on a campaign stop Sunday, rival presidential candidate Mitt Romney took aim at Clinton's approach, accusing her of harboring ideas more in line with "Communist Manifesto" author Karl Marx's theories than those of capitalist champion Adam Smith. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )