Capital

Volume I

Author: Karl Marx, Ernest Mandel and Ben Fowkes Series: Capital

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A landmark work in the understanding of capitalism, bourgeois society and the economics of class conflict, Karl Marx's Capital is translated by Ben Fowkes with an introduction by Ernest Mandel in Penguin Classics.

Presents a critique of private property and the social relations it generates. This book argues that capitalism would create an ever-increasing division in wealth and welfare, predicting its abolition and replacement by a system with common ownership of the means of production.

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One of the most influential political and philosophical texts ever writtenOne 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 generate fresh insights. Arguing that capitalism would create 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 and Germany, and ultimately throughout the world, to become a work described by Marx's friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels as 'the Bible of the Working Class'

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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.'

Product Details

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd | Penguin Classics

Published

6th December 1990

Edition

1st

Pages

1152

ISBN

9780140445688

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22 Sep, 2021

Das Kapital is more than just another book by Marx, it is an accumulation of his best ideas and arguments. Rather than spend his time explaining what Socialism should look like, he goes into detail fully analyzing Capitalism, the contradictions within it and where we must stand in order to conquer it. If you have any economic, political or philosophical interests, I would highly recommend it. In fact I think the world would be better if everybody understood it. One thing to bear in mind, it does take some time to get used to Marx's writing style but after that, and once you are past the two hardest chapters (1 and 2) it becomes more fluid to understand his theories - not to say that the first two chapters are too difficult; just a bit more than the others. Also when reading this book you may pick up on little bits of Marx's humor spread throughout.
Overall this book is 5/5. It is not beautiful to read like a novel but nobody would expect that anyway, it is purely rated by its content and relevant information it holds, which, is immense.
By Lachlan

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