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A Washington DC multimedia extravaganza celebrated the concept of a Dictionary of Marx, highlighting twelve words central to Marx’s lexicon and subsequent movements that look to Marx

Marx is often remembered as a political economist or philosopher. But he made his mark as a journalist. Marx was never content to sit back and let history take its course; he felt compelled to persuade, to use the workings of the news cycle as bits of evidence that his world view is the most sound.

Marx’s work remains the most compelling framework for analyzing how the conflicting tendencies in present-day society contain the seeds of a more humane future.