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Capital
A Critique of Political Policy
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Capital, one of Marx's major and most influential works, was the product of thirty years of 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 have 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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ISBN: 9780394726571
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 12 August 1977
Country: United States
Imprint: Random House USA Inc
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 51.0mm
Width: 131.0mm
Height: 202.0mm
Weight: 794g
Pages: 1152
About the Author
Karl Marx was born in 1818 in Trier, Prussia. While attending university in Berlin he was influenced by the ideas of the philosopher Hegel and his critics, the Young Hegelians, but Marx eventually rejected both schools of thought. He quickly earned the reputation of a revolutionary and left Germany for Paris, where he met his lifelong friend and collaborator, Friedrich Engels. Together they wrote and published The Communist Manifesto, which was published in 1848, just before the first wave of revolutions in France. Marx returned to Germany but his radical activities led to expulsion, whereupon he moved to London. There, Marx and Engels collaborated on further works on economics and contemporary politics. Marx also wrote his major treatise, Das Kapital, but only the first volume was published in his lifetime. Marx died in poverty on March 14, 1883, and was buried in Highgate Cemetery.
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