Karl Marx

Jewish Liberation From The Ghetto: Excerpt From "Emancipation"

GlobalPost | Michael Goldfarb | Posted 11.13.2009 | Books

Read More: Palestine, Globalpost, Jews, Marx, Judaism, Books, Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto, New Books, Moses Hess, Communism, Michael Goldfarb, Emancipation, Israel, World War II, Books News

Michael Goldfarb GlobalPost An excerpt from Michael Goldfarb's new book, "Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolutio...

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Sacrificing to the Volcano God

Garrett Johnson | Posted 10.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Volcano God, Free Trade, Wall Street Bailout, Henry Paulson, Ben Bernanke, Karl Marx, Business News

Hundreds of years ago the Incas would sacrifice virgins to appease their Volcano God. The Gods (the banks) and the methods (bailouts) may have changed, but the tradition remains.

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Top 8 Famous Refugees (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Posted 07.23.2009 | World

Read More: Madam Albright, Slideshow, Henry Kissinger, Anne Frank, M.I.A., Gloria Estefan, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Refugees, Albert Einstein, World Refugee Day, Famous Refugees, Famous World Refugees Huffington, Famous Refuggee, World News

June 20th was World Refugee Day. Here's our list of some of the most famous refugees ever. Know of other famous refugees? Leave your suggestions i...

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Dem Sen Hits Back At Judd Gregg: We'd Prefer Karl Marx To Darth Vader On Health Care

nytimes.com | David M. Herszenhorn | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Judd Gregg, Senators Fighting, Darth Vader, New Health Care Bill, Health Care, Barbara Mikulski, Karl Marx, Politics News

Senator Judd Gregg, Republican of New Hampshire, delivered a brutal critique this morning of the draft health care legislation put forward by Democrat...

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Is God Stupid?

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 04.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Abortion, Single Mothers, Unemployment, God, Imprisonment, Unemployment Rate, The Envirinment, Dropout-Rates, Prayer, Black, Faith, High School Dropouts, Aids, HIV/AIDS Africa, Pope Benedict, Karl Marx, Islam, Jews, Episcopalians, Jesus Christ, Christianity, Green News

Wouldn't benevolent God be more likely to be like your mother or grandmother, than like most of our fathers? It's not that I am an avowed atheist, no...

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What Did Charles Darwin Really Believe?

John W. Whitehead | Posted 03.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Adolf Hitler, Charles Darwin, John D. Rockefeller, Karl Marx, Biology, Benito Mussolini, Evolution, George Bernard Shaw, J. D. Rockefeller, The Origin of Species, Andrew Carnegie, Caporetto, Living News

The world is not black and white, and neither are our so-called historical heroes. Children should be taught what these historical figures really believed and the ramifications of their beliefs.

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Nepal's Political Crisis Deepens

Subhash Ghimire | Posted 02.13.2009 | World

Read More: India, Beijing Olympics, Olympics, World Bank, Prime Minister Prachanda, Black Market, Political Chaos, Government, Politics, Beijing, The Future, Imf, Marxism, Looting, Asia, Himalayans, Nepal Monarchy, Poverty, Terrorism, Karl Marx, Kathmandu, Maoism, Communism, Delhi, Nepal, Mao, Rebelling, Lenin, Mao Zedong, China, World News

More than 80% of Nepalese live in villages with very little access to health, education and other modern amenities. Lands seized by Maoists during the decade long war from 1996 to 2006 have not been returned to the owners.

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Das Bailout: A Conversation With Karl Marx

James Pinkerton | Posted 02.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Financial Crisis, Communism, Wall Street Crisis, The Communist Manifesto, Bailout, Economy, Economic Crisis, Karl Marx, Politics News

Searching for perspective about all these bailouts and huge deficits, I thought I would pick the brain of the ultimate big-government guy, Karl Marx. Of course, he died in 1883, which forced me to get creative.

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The Fall of a Free Market Prophet

Larry Beinhart | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Communism, Economics, Economy, Henry Waxman, Ronald Reagan, Karl Marx, Salvation Boulevard, George Bush, Objectivist, Ayn Rand, Objectivism, Alan Greenspan, Jesus Christ, Bubble, Real Estate, Crash, Politics News

The most interesting, and perhaps the most important, moment in philosophy in the last decade occurred on October 28, 2008, in a hearing of the House ...

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Das Krapital

Steven Weber | Posted 01.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Wal-Mart Death, Socialism, Capitalism, Karl Marx, Business News

For next week's class, please write a seven hundred billion word essay on why Black Friday Trampling will become the next "moshing." Dismissed.

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Masters of the Universe II: Just who is Obama?

Sanjiv Gupta | Posted 12.13.2008 | Home

Read More: Taxes, Lehman Brothers, Economy, Karl Marx, Economic Crisis, President Obama, Financial Crisis, Henry Paulson, Banks, Credit Crisis, Democracy, Obama, Socialism, Barack Obama, Home News

The election on November 4, 2008 has brought us full circle from the events of September 11, 2001. People all over the world mourned the destruction...

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The Great Recession

Larry Abrams | Posted 12.01.2008 | Business

We need an economic system of checks and balances where the public sector competes with the private sector and keeps it honest, and vice versa.

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Liberalism, What Are You Going As for Halloween?

Matt Mendelsohn | Posted 11.27.2008 | Business

This year, it seemed certain that liberalism would show up at the Halloween block party wearing the costume of a self-loathing American: a terrorist-loving, non-flag-pin-lapel-wearing lefty.

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Greenspan Admits: "It Was All My Fault"

William Klein | Posted 11.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Financial Meltdown, Humor, Satire, Political Humor, Market Crash, Stock Market, Economy, Karl Marx, Economic Crisis, Political Satire, Alan Greenspan, Capitalism, Recession, Business News

"I'd been hoping to avoid this getting out," Greenspan said, "but I have an evil twin." With that, he seemed to acquire a bushy head of hair and a white beard and introduced himself as "Karl."

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Wasn't it "Spreading the Wealth" Eight Years Ago with the Bush Tax Cuts for America's Wealthiest 1%?

Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, John McCain, Karl Marx, Redistribution of Wealth, Socialism, Joe Biden, Spread the Wealth, Taxation, Novembner Election, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Politics News

As any student of economics will tell you, there's absolutely no logic or truth in McCain/Palin's "spread the wealth" attacks on Obama.

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Amid Financial Crisis, Books By Karl Marx Selling Well

AFP | Posted 11.17.2008 | Business

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Whether it is simply a fashion cycle or a sign of the times, books by communist icon Karl Marx are selling well, German publisher Joern Schuetrumpf sa...

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American Respite

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 11.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Recession Fears, Israel, Money, Recession, Karl Marx, Business News

Economies go through a self-weeding process every so many years, getting rid of weak firms, trimming the fat on the new cycle of innovation, and preparing for new rounds of growth.

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McCain Hopes Castro "To Meet Karl Marx" Soon

Reuters | Jason Szep | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Republican presidential front-runner John McCain suggested on Friday that he hoped retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro would die soon and said Castro's ...

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