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Karl Marx: India's freedom struggle too was influenced by Marxism

Prasenjit Bose — 2018-06-10T06:32:18Z

Friedrich Engels, while informing a common friend about Marx's death in March 1883, wrote “...mankind is shorter by a head, and the greatest head of our time at that”. Few would have agreed with Engels' appraisal at that time. By the turn of the century though, the ideas of Karl Marx had started capturing the imagination of millions across the world.

- IV521 - June 2018 / India, Marx 200

The emergence of an ecological Karl Marx: 1818 - 2018

Gareth Dale — 2018-06-02T13:10:01Z

Karl Marx was born in Trier 200 years ago today. [1] The legacy of the political economist is fiercely contested. The Ecologist was among the first magazines to examine his ecological thinking - in an essay published in 1971. Here, Gareth Dale, an editor of the book Green Growth, examines Marx's own claims about nature and society - and our original interpretation of them.

- IV521 - June 2018 / Ecology and the Environment, Marx 200