Audio Marx

Left of Karl Marx

The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones

By: Carole Boyce Davies
Narrated by: L. Malaika Cooper
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

In Left of Karl Marx, Carole Boyce Davies assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915–1964), a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual, dedicated communist, and feminist. Jones is buried in London's Highgate Cemetery, to the left of Karl Marx—a location that Boyce Davies finds fitting given how Jones expanded... Read more

Understanding Karl Marx

By: Introbooks Team
Narrated by: Megan Mateer
Length: 40 minutes

Karl Marx named as socialism father advocated equality for all, sought tribalists rights to operatives and that there were state-owned enterprises to private lives of which profits are distributed to society for the welfare of all. He developed the idea that the nation excluding capitalism that benefited the worker and discards when this is not... Read more

Karl Marx - The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx
Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano
Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

'The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.'
"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." Karl Marx
Born in Trier, Germany, Karl Marx studied law and philosophy at university. Due to his controversial political publications however, Marx became stateless and lived in... Read more

Decolonial Marxism

Essays from the Pan-African Revolution

By: Walter Rodney
Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

A previously unpublished collection of Rodney's essays on Marxism, spanning his engagement with of Black Power, Ujamaa Villages, and the everyday people who put an end to a colonial era

Early in life, Walter Rodney became a major revolutionary figure in a dizzying range of locales that traversed the breadth of the Black diaspora: in North... Read more

Marx in Motion

A New Materialist Marxism

By: Thomas Nail
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Karl Marx is the most historically foundational and systematic critic of capitalism to date, and the years since the 2008 financial crisis have witnessed a rebirth of his popular appeal. In a world of rising income inequality, right-wing nationalisms, and global climate change, people are again looking to the father of modern socialism for... Read more