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To many, February is the month dedicated to celebrating Black Americans’ contributions to a country where they were once enslaved

A century and a half ago, Russia lost a war it might have expected to win. The consequences reached far and wide

The term “emotional labour” is applied to an array of home-based activities — from keeping mental to-do lists, to remembering to call your in-laws on their birthdays. Some advocate the need to teach boys emotional labour, or identify it as the unpaid jobs men still don’t understand.

In 1845, Karl Marx declared: “philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it”.

The role of government is to correct the tendency towards monopoly and inequality through regulation, but they have been falling down on the job.

Compassion is so, so important if civilization is to rise to the heights most of us wish for, but compassion without wisdom can produce Karl Marx communism. “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs,” the historical figure said by way of summation in 1875, and…

The prophet and inspiration for the Soviet Union, which Vladimir Putin apparently aspires to rebuild on bigger and better lines, was Karl Marx. But a better understanding of Putin’s motivations for a greater Russia, and the lesser Ukraine, might be derived from the collected works of Sigmund Freud.

For seven years, the East German security service’s poetry group met in Berlin to discuss literature. But there was more to it than just learning about iambic pentameter