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by Karl Marx (Author)
Karl Marx's Capital (Das Kapital) is one of the most influential works in political economy and philosophy. This comprehensive volume compiles all three volumes--Volume I: The Process of Capitalist Production, Volume II: The Circulation of Capital, and Volume III: The Overall Process of Capitalist Production--presenting Marx's critique of capitalism in full depth.
Marx analyzes how value is created, the dynamics of labor and capital, exploitation, surplus value, and the contradictions that he argues will ultimately lead to capitalism's collapse. Groundbreaking and revolutionary, this work lays the foundation of Marxist theory and remains essential for anyone interested in economics, political science, sociology, and history.
The book that shaped revolutions and redefined modern economics.
- Explore the full trilogy of Marx's economic masterpiece in a single edition
- Delve into the mechanics of capitalist production and its social consequences
- Reflect on the foundational text of Marxist theory and socialist thought
- Discover timeless insights into labor, value, class, and exploitation
- Essential for students, thinkers, and critics of economic systems
- The capitalist mode of production
- Labor theory of value and surplus value
- Class struggle and exploitation
- Commodity fetishism
- Historical materialism and revolutionary change
Author Biography
An economist, sociologist, philosopher, journalist, historian, and revolutionary, Karl Marx was born to a middle-class Jewish family in Trier on May 5, 1818. Marx completed his doctoral thesis, titled The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature, in 1841, and submitted it to the University of Jena. He was awarded a Ph.D. in April 1841. In 1844, Marx befriended Friedrich Engels, the German socialist, and became a revolutionary communist. Marx's The Poverty of Philosophy was published in 1847. Marx and Engels published The Communist Manifesto, a political pamphlet summarizing their theories about the nature of society and politics, in 1848. The first volume, Capital, Volume I, of his magnum opus Capital (Das Kapital) was published in 1867. Marx continued to work on the remaining two volumes which were published after his death by Engels. Capital, Volume II was published in 1885 and Capital, Volume III in 1894. Considered to be his masterwork, Capital has been translated into all the major languages. Marx died in London on March 14, 1883, aged sixty-four..
