Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Marx first began to work out his theory of value in the Grundrisse (1857), but the discussion there is very convoluted and incomplete. 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.”įor more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. 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. 1.0 out of 5 stars tedious, verbose, long winded very very very long books. It is no accident that Marx starts Capital Volume 1 with an analysis neither of the capitalist mode of produc ion, nor of capital, nor of wage-labour. 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. Capital: Volume I (Das Kapital series Book 1) Karl Marx. For years, Marx and Engels tried to find a translator and an editor for Das. 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. But it took 20 years to complete the first English translation of volume one. The first volume of a political treatise that changed the world

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