Hugo de Camps Mora challenges Vivek Chibber's fetishized account of materialism in favor of the broader and more expansive conception Marx argued for.

Nobody today denies that capitalism exploits nature. The disagreement is over why. Political theorist Alyssa Battistoni spoke to Jacobin about capitalism’s complex relationship to what economists once...

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Unlike in previous eras, elite reproduction today is now hidden under the veil of meritocracy — creating a need among the rich to present themselves as if they were just like us.

Unlike in previous eras, elite reproduction today is now hidden under the veil of meritocracy — creating a need among the rich to present themselves as if they were just like us.

As far back as Aristotle, Western thinkers have been deeply critical of the power that the wealthy hold over society. Historian Guido Alfani sat down with Jacobin to discuss the long history of opposi...

In his new biography of Karl Marx, Bruno Leipold puts his subject in historical context. Marx, he tells Jacobin, was engaged in a political struggle against utopian communists and republicans unable t...