Sparks Commentary

I have long had a fair number of friends who identify as “Marxist” or “socialist.” But I freely admit that relatively few of my friends ha...

Karl Marx attacked other socialist and communist schools in “The Communist Manifesto” The debate over the Marxist heritage is at least as ol...

A “zero-sum game” is one where you can only gain to the extent that others lose Marx once argued that the economy was a “zero-sum game” – o...

“What is rational is real; And what is real is rational.” – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s “Elements of the Philosophy of Right” (1821) In ...

“A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial thing, and easily understood. Its analysis shows that it is, in reality, a very queer t...

I once read “The Communist Manifesto”  itself in English translation in 2012, because it is a shorter work that requires very little time...

One of the central tenets of Marxism is the "labor theory of value," which is the idea that the economic value of something is d...

"Competition engenders misery, it foments civil war, it 'changes natural zones,' mixes up nationalities, causes trouble in fa...

" A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of communism . All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcis...