Read more Marxism stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/1922/marxism.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 18:37:43 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/53539/china-prepares-for-das-kapital-the-musical.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagKarl Marx's Das Kapital offers hundreds of pages of dense German prose on class struggle and modes of production—so why not add some singing and dancing? That's the idea of several Chinese producers who are mounting a Das Kapital musical, which promises a live band and Vegas-style theatrics to...http://www.newser.com/story/53539/china-prepares-for-das-kapital-the-musical.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 17 Mar 2009 10:38:34 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/40018/crisis-stricken-germans-turn-to-marx.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe financial crisis has made interventionists out of the most laissez-faire politicians, but in Germany the affection for state control seems to have attained new heights. The Guardian reports that sales of the works of Karl Marx have skyrocketed, with purchases of Das Kapital reportedly up 300%. As Europe's largest...http://www.newser.com/story/40018/crisis-stricken-germans-turn-to-marx.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 15 Oct 2008 13:56:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/29578/bookish-past-might-not-help-rebel-leader.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThough Alfonso Cano, the new commander of Colombia’s FARC rebels, is a bookish intellectual, don’t expect a new push towards government negotiations, sources tell the Washington Post. Cano, who turned to Marx in college after a middle-class upbringing, would be uniquely suited to push peaceful political action—but in its...http://www.newser.com/story/29578/bookish-past-might-not-help-rebel-leader.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 09 Jun 2008 14:33:15 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/24174/verdi-naked-and-anti-american.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA German staging of Verdi’s “A Masked Ball” leaves Uncle Sam wearing little but a mask, Der Spiegel reports. In a rebuke of US capitalism, the production parades naked retirees on a set of the World Trade Center's ruins, and offers a female singer with a Hitler mustache saluting the...http://www.newser.com/story/24174/verdi-naked-and-anti-american.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 12 Apr 2008 6:51:09 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/20052/communist-cyprus-prez-to-work-within-free-market.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNew President Dimitris Christofias' win in Cyprus makes him the first Communist ever to lead an EU state—but he has pledged to work within the free market, reports the Guardian . His party has a Marxist manifesto, but analysts say that Christofias is a pragmatist whose policies are more social...http://www.newser.com/story/20052/communist-cyprus-prez-to-work-within-free-market.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 26 Feb 2008 4:00:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/12983/pope-condemns-atheism.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPope Benedict issued a strong condemnation of atheism today and warned that advances in technology must be met with similar advancements in ethics. In his second encyclical, the pope said atheist ideologies have "led to the greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice," Reuters reports. "Man needs God," he...http://www.newser.com/story/12983/pope-condemns-atheism.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 30 Nov 2007 15:20:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/12372/chavez-fired-as-hostage-mediator.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagColombia ended Hugo Chavez's try at freeing 45 hostages from Marxist rebels today, Reuters reports. The Venezuelan prez had been brokering their release for weeks when he apparently breached protocol by talking to a Colombian general. "Can you imagine (Russia's president) calling the chairman of the U.S. chiefs of...http://www.newser.com/story/12372/chavez-fired-as-hostage-mediator.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 22 Nov 2007 19:32:49 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/11072/walter-mosleys-top-literary-picks.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWalter Mosley has won accolades from readers and critics alike for his Easy Rawlins detective series, and the novelist has a philosophical side, too. Newsweek presents his list of important works that "most greatly impacted the intelligence, potential and humanity of the people of the world." The Theory of Relativity...http://www.newser.com/story/11072/walter-mosleys-top-literary-picks.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 06 Nov 2007 16:10:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/7221/osama-tape-sophomoric-and-bizarre.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagOsama’s latest tape is “a great disappointment,” as sophomoric as it is bizarre, says James Robbins in the National Review . The terrorist’s invitation for Americans to convert to Islam – which would force “warmongering corporations” to spend energy converting people back – is as odd as his critique of JFK’s...http://www.newser.com/story/7221/osama-tape-sophomoric-and-bizarre.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 09 Sep 2007 17:27:56 CDT