# Marxism A political ideology rooted in the ideas of Karl Marx which asserts the inherent intellectual contradictions at the heart of [capitalism](capitalism.md) and [market](../market.md). Marx defines a heterodox reading of [value](../value.md) based on philosophy and history and attempts to derive a new system in which [price-formation](../price-formation.md) can occur without the existing superstructure of capitalism. See also [[commodity fetishism]] and [sign value](../sign-value.md). ## References Beggs, Mike. n.d. ‘The Dumb Money’. Jacobin. Accessed 20 March 2022. https://jacobinmag.com/2018/04/bitcoin-cryptocurrency-monetary-system. Eich, Stefan. 2018. ‘The Currency of Politics’. The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes. ———. n.d. ‘Crypto Won’t Solve Our Problems — We Need to Democratize Money’. Jacobin. Accessed 20 March 2022. https://jacobinmag.com/2022/02/cryptocurrency-democratize-monetary-policy-economics-banks-financial-system-bitcoin. Hart, Raven. n.d. ‘Cryptocurrency Is Bunk’. Accessed 20 March 2022. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/10/cryptocurrency-bitcoin-politics-treasury-central-bank-loans-monetary-policy. Henwood, David. n.d. ‘What’s Behind Bitcoin Mania?’ Jacobin. Accessed 20 March 2022. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/12/bitcoin-price-crypto-currency-explainer. Howson, Peter. n.d. ‘No, Crypto Isn’t Helping Ukraine’. Jacobin. Accessed 20 March 2022. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/03/crypto-bitcoin-ukraine-russia-war-finance-funding. Silverman, Jacob. n.d. ‘Crypto Is Making Everything Worse’. Jacobin. Accessed 20 March 2022. https://jacobinmag.com/2022/03/cryptocurrency-bitcoin-speculative-asset-digitization-metaverse. Sohale Andrus Mortazvi. n.d. ‘Cryptocurrency Is a Giant Ponzi Scheme’. Jacobin. Accessed 20 March 2022. https://jacobinmag.com/2022/01/cryptocurrency-scam-blockchain-bitcoin-economy-decentralization.