Extreme inequality, precarious labour, corporate power and political alienation have intensified rather than receded in the era of late capitalism. Karl Marx’s importance lies in his method of ...

Explore capitalism's core features, including private ownership, minimal government intervention, and a two-class structure, driving free-market economies worldwide.

In her new book, Alyssa Battistoni explores how nature came to be treated as a supposedly cost-free supplement of capital ...

Nobody today denies that capitalism exploits nature. The disagreement is over why. Political theorist Alyssa Battistoni spoke ...

Socialism guru Noam Chomsky tells students that. He says the Soviet Union "was about as remote from socialism as you could imagine." Give me a break. The Soviets made private business illegal. If that ...

People criticize capitalism. A recent Axios-Generation poll says, "College students prefer socialism to capitalism." Socialism guru Noam Chomsky tells students that. He says the Soviet Union "was ...

State capitalism. MAGA Marxism. Crony capitalism. Those are just some of the terms business and political commentators have used this year to describe how President Donald Trump's policies are ...

Is the Trump administration trying to reshape American capitalism? Recent moves by Washington, such as taking a 10% share of semiconductor maker Intel, point to a shift in that direction. For decades, ...

With the world in mortal crisis throughout the 1930s, the leading capitalist intellectuals of the day met in a series of fraught conferences. Horrified by the advances of totalitarianism, economists ...

Can we experience true freedom in our capitalist society? According to Professor Lea Ypi, the answer is no. She argues that structural forces restrain us from being able to make choices freely—without ...

In a bold new history, Sven Beckert traces the origins of our modern economy, from global port cities to the halls of power. Centuries ago, Beckert writes, investors traveled to remote corners of the ...

The USA was founded as a democratic republic based on the Bill of Rights, personal freedoms, limited government and Judeo-Christian principles, but certainly not the hate speech, violence, lies and ...