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Capital: Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy (Penguin Classics) Trade paperback - 1992
by Marx, Karl
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- Title Capital: Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy (Penguin Classics)
- Author Marx, Karl
- Binding Trade Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 1152
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Classics, London
- Date 1992
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 356075
- 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).
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- Business, Economics & Industry Economics
- History Historical Geography Social History
- Philosophy Western Philosophy Political & Economic Philosophy
- Philosophy Western Philosophy Communism
- Philosophy Western Philosophy Socialism
- Philosophy Western Philosophy Marxism
- Politics, Government and Law Politics
- Politics, Government and Law Political Science
- Social Sciences Economics