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Capital: Critique of Political Economy v. 1 (Classics S.)

Capital: Critique of Political Economy v. 1 (Classics S.) Paperback - 1992

by Marx, Karl

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  • Title Capital: Critique of Political Economy v. 1 (Classics S.)
  • Author Marx, Karl
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 1152
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, London
  • Date 1992-05-05
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR001386730
  • ISBN 9780140445688 / 0140445684
  • Weight 1.7 lbs (0.77 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 5 x 2.1 in (20.57 x 12.70 x 5.33 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Capitalism, Socialism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 82188249
  • Dewey Decimal Code 335.41

About this book

A classic of early modernism, Capital combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of mid-Victorian capitalist society. It has also proved to be the most influential work in social science in the twentieth century; Marx did for social science what Darwin had done for biology. Millions of readers this century have treated Capital as a sacred text, subjecting it to as many different interpretations as the bible itself. No mere work of dry economics, Marx's great work depicts the unfolding of industrial capitalism as a tragic drama - with a message which has lost none of its relevance today. 

Summary

One of the most notorious works of modern times, as well as one of the most influential, Capital is an incisive critique of private property and the social relations it generates. Living in exile in England, where this work was largely written, Marx drew on a wide-ranging knowledge of its society to support his analysis and create fresh insights. Arguing that capitalism would cause an ever-increasing division in wealth and welfare, he predicted its abolition and replacement by a system with common ownership of the means of production. Capital rapidly acquired readership among the leaders of social democratic parties, particularly in Russia in Germany, and ultimately throughout the world, to become a work described by Marx friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels as “the Bible of the working class (from publisher).

From the publisher

Translation of: Das Kapital. Reprint. originally published in this edition: Pelican Books, 1976- <1981> Include prefaces to various editions, signed by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Vol. <2-3> translated by David Fernbach. "Gift of Prof. Kenneth Hoover"--Bookplate. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Gift; Kenneth Hoover; December, 2004.

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About the author

Karl Marx was born in 1818 in Trier, Germany and studied in Bonn and Berlin. Influenced by Hegel, he later reacted against idealist philosophy and began to develop his own theory of historical materialism. He related the state of society to its economic foundations and mode of production, and recommended armed revolution on the part of the proletariat. Together with Engels, who he met in Paris, he wrote the Manifesto of the Communist Party. He lived in England as a refugee until his death in 1888, after participating in an unsuccessful revolution in Germany. Ernst Mandel was a member of the Belgian TUV from 1954 to 1963 and was chosen for the annual Alfred Marshall Lectures by Cambridge University in 1978. He died in 1995 and the Guardian described him as 'one of the most creative and independent-minded revolutionary Marxist thinkers of the post-war world.'

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