After a series of chapters were first published in an American magazine, Horatio Alger’s novel Ragged Dick was met with a fanatic readership and widespread critical acclaim. In March 1868, advertisements of the forthcoming full-length novel raved,...

As a young writer in a time of brewing class tensions, Marx studied the historical and present relationship between the classes and wrote several works, including "The German Ideology" (1845-46) and "Manifesto of the Communist Party" (1848). In...

Karl Marx introduces the trinity formula to us near the end of the work. One interpretation of the trinity formula is that it's a description of how capital (the collective value of the means of production), land (arable land is the example), and...