by Loren Stewart in Source Code Loren Stewart, an engineer working on Every’s Slack agent, has built himself a software ...

Karl Marx didn’t live to see the rise of artificial intelligence, but he had a good sense of where things might be heading. Writing in the thick of the 19th-century Industrial Revolution, Marx was ...

Quotations from Capital with commentary  “The national debt, i.e. the alienation of the state - whether that state is ...

An extract from Marx's 1844 Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts on the process of alienation of the worker from their work. ... We now have to grasp the essential connection between private ...

About Marx's theory of alienation. Marx's theory of alienation describes the estrangement of people from aspects of their essential human nature as a consequence of living in a so ...

Labor Day is a good time to reflect on ethics and the economy. Honest, hard-working people should be able to earn enough money to live decent lives. There is something corrupt about wealth that is ...

In a recent essay in The Nation, Wendy Brown, a political theorist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., contends that Karl Marx’s Capital is unrivaled in its explanatory power ...