Understanding Society

One of the more memorable parts of Capital is Marx's description of the “so-called primitive accumulation of capital” — the hist...

So here is Paris today ... thousands of anonymous strangers on Boulevard Saint-Germain at 5 pm, no sense of common bond or shared iden...

Marx was a critic above all else. His most comfortable intellectual stance was criticism -- most of the subtitles of his works involve the w...

It is interesting to compare Durkheim and Marx on their ideas about modern consciousness. Durkheim focused on social solidarity as one of ...

Marx provided a rigorous basis for analyzing the facts about exploitation in a class society. This is on the materialistic side of the equat...