marx

    By Jonathan Berr

    | 10:00AM 3/31/2009
    With the economy is disarray, the stock market in free fall and unemployment reaching record levels, is now the time for a musical based on Karl Marx's famously dull bible of communism, Das Kapital? To a Chinese director, the answer is emphatically "yes." According to the BBC, "the plot will...

    By Michael Rainey

    | 1:22PM 2/07/2009
    Zac Bissonnette recently wrote about a quote that is making the rounds on Wall Street. It claims to be a passage from Karl Marx that predicts our current economic predicament: Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing...