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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1 Paperback - 1977

by Karl Marx

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  • Title Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1
  • Author Karl Marx
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 1152
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage, New York
  • Date August 12, 1977
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 039472657X-11-1
  • ISBN 9780394726571 / 039472657X
  • Weight 1.77 lbs (0.80 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.05 x 5.17 x 1.95 in (20.45 x 13.13 x 4.95 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Russian
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 77005270
  • 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. 

First line

The wealth of societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails appears as an 'immense collection of commodities'; the individual commodity appears as its elementary form.

From the rear cover

'Capital, ' one of Marx's major and most influential works, was the product of thirty years' close study of the capitalist mode of production in England, the most advanced industrial society of his day. This new translation of Volume One, the only volume to be completed and edited by Marx himself, avoids some of the mistakes that marred earlier versions and seeks to do justice to the literary qualities of the work. The introduction is by Ernest Mandel, author of 'Late Capitalism', one of the only comprehensive attempts to develop the theoretical legacy of 'Capital'.

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About the author

Karl Mark (1818-1883) was a philosopher, social scientist, historian, and revolutionary. He is without a doubt the most influential socialist thinker to emerge in the nineteenth century. Although he was largely ignored by scholars in his own lifetime, his social, economic, and political ideas gained rapid acceptance in the socialist movement after his death. In Paris, Marx developed his lifelong partnership with Friedrich Engels (1820-1895).