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Capital (Das Kapital): Enriched edition. Vol. 1-3: Complete Edition - Including The Communist Manifesto, Wage-Labour and Capital, & Wages, Price and Profit
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Capital by Karl Marx is a foundational theoretical text in materialist philosophy, economics and politics. Marx aimed to reveal the economic patterns underpinning the capitalist mode of production, in contrast to classical political economists such as Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, David Ricardo and John Stuart Mill. Marx did not live to publish the planned second and third parts, but they were both completed from his notes and published after his death by his colleague Friedrich Engels. Capital is the most cited book in the social sciences published before 1950.The Communist Manifesto (originally Manifesto of the Communist Party) is an 1848 political pamphlet by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London just as the revolutions of 1848 began to erupt, the Manifesto was later recognised as one of the world's most influential political documents.
Wage Labour and Capital is an essay on economics by Karl Marx, written in 1847 and first published in articles in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung in April 1849. This essay has been widely acclaimed as the precursor to Marx's important treatise Das Kapital.
Value, Price and Profit was a speech given to the First International Working Men's Association in June in 1865 by Karl Marx. It was written between the end of May and June 27 in 1865, and was published in 1898.Karl Marx (1818–1883) was a famous German philosopher, economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist.
Capital by Karl Marx is a foundational theoretical text in materialist philosophy, economics and politics. Marx aimed to reveal the economic patterns underpinning the capitalist mode of production, in contrast to classical political economists such as Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, David Ricardo and John Stuart Mill. Marx did not live to publish the planned second and third parts, but they were both completed from his notes and published after his death by his colleague Friedrich Engels. Capital is the most cited book in the social sciences published before 1950.The Communist Manifesto (originally Manifesto of the Communist Party) is an 1848 political pamphlet by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London just as the revolutions of 1848 began to erupt, the Manifesto was later recognised as one of the world's most influential political documents.
Wage Labour and Capital is an essay on economics by Karl Marx, written in 1847 and first published in articles in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung in April 1849. This essay has been widely acclaimed as the precursor to Marx's important treatise Das Kapital.
Value, Price and Profit was a speech given to the First International Working Men's Association in June in 1865 by Karl Marx. It was written between the end of May and June 27 in 1865, and was published in 1898.Karl Marx (1818–1883) was a famous German philosopher, economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist.
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Karl Marx
3,439 books7,032 followersWith the help of Friedrich Engels, German philosopher and revolutionary Karl Marx wrote
The Communist Manifesto
(1848) and
Das Kapital
(1867-1894), works, which explain historical development in terms of the interaction of contradictory economic forces, form many regimes, and profoundly influenced the social sciences.
German social theorist Friedrich Engels collaborated with Karl Marx on The Communist Manifesto in 1848 and on numerous other works.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakunin in London opposed Communism of Karl Marx with his antithetical anarchy.
Works of Jacques Martin Barzun include Darwin, Marx, Wagner (1941).
The Prussian kingdom introduced a prohibition on Jews, practicing law; in response, a man converted to Protestantism and shortly afterward fathered Karl Marx.
Marx began co-operating with Bruno Bauer on editing Philosophy of Religion of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (see Democritus and Epicurus), doctoral thesis, also engaged Marx, who completed it in 1841. People described the controversial essay as "a daring and original piece... in which Marx set out to show that theology must yield to the superior wisdom." Marx decided to submit his thesis not to the particularly conservative professors at the University of Berlin but instead to the more liberal faculty of University of Jena, which for his contributed key theory awarded his Philosophiae Doctor in April 1841. Marx and Bauer, both atheists, in March 1841 began plans for a journal, entitled Archiv des Atheismus (Atheistic Archives), which never came to fruition.
Marx edited the newspaper Vorwärts! in 1844 in Paris. The urging of the Prussian government from France banished and expelled Marx in absentia; he then studied in Brussels. He joined the league in 1847 and published.
Marx participated the failure of 1848 and afterward eventually wound in London. Marx, a foreigner, corresponded for several publications of United States.
He came in three volumes. Marx organized the International and the social democratic party.
Marx in a letter to C. Schmidt once quipped, "All I know is that I am not a Marxist," as Warren Allen Smith related in Who's Who in Hell .
People describe Marx, who most figured among humans. They typically cite Marx with Émile Durkheim and Max Weber, the principal modern architects.
Bertrand Russell later remarked of non-religious Marx, "His belief that there is a cosmic ... called dialectical materialism, which governs ... independently of human volitions, is mere mythology" ( Portraits from Memory , 1956).
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marx/
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bi...
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/...
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic...
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/...
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/t...
German social theorist Friedrich Engels collaborated with Karl Marx on The Communist Manifesto in 1848 and on numerous other works.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakunin in London opposed Communism of Karl Marx with his antithetical anarchy.
Works of Jacques Martin Barzun include Darwin, Marx, Wagner (1941).
The Prussian kingdom introduced a prohibition on Jews, practicing law; in response, a man converted to Protestantism and shortly afterward fathered Karl Marx.
Marx began co-operating with Bruno Bauer on editing Philosophy of Religion of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (see Democritus and Epicurus), doctoral thesis, also engaged Marx, who completed it in 1841. People described the controversial essay as "a daring and original piece... in which Marx set out to show that theology must yield to the superior wisdom." Marx decided to submit his thesis not to the particularly conservative professors at the University of Berlin but instead to the more liberal faculty of University of Jena, which for his contributed key theory awarded his Philosophiae Doctor in April 1841. Marx and Bauer, both atheists, in March 1841 began plans for a journal, entitled Archiv des Atheismus (Atheistic Archives), which never came to fruition.
Marx edited the newspaper Vorwärts! in 1844 in Paris. The urging of the Prussian government from France banished and expelled Marx in absentia; he then studied in Brussels. He joined the league in 1847 and published.
Marx participated the failure of 1848 and afterward eventually wound in London. Marx, a foreigner, corresponded for several publications of United States.
He came in three volumes. Marx organized the International and the social democratic party.
Marx in a letter to C. Schmidt once quipped, "All I know is that I am not a Marxist," as Warren Allen Smith related in Who's Who in Hell .
People describe Marx, who most figured among humans. They typically cite Marx with Émile Durkheim and Max Weber, the principal modern architects.
Bertrand Russell later remarked of non-religious Marx, "His belief that there is a cosmic ... called dialectical materialism, which governs ... independently of human volitions, is mere mythology" ( Portraits from Memory , 1956).
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marx/
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bi...
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/...
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic...
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/...
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/t...
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July 18, 2018
If you want to understand Marxism straight from the source, and if you are willing to dedicate the time necessary to read long, boring, repetitive material, this is the book for you. The “Communist Manifesto” gives you all you really need to know in a short, spunky few pages. Das Kapital is three volumes of Marx and Engles explaining what they believe to be the evils of capitalism and why it is doomed. In three volumes, each more ponderous than the one before, the reader will learn more than they ever wanted to know about wool, cotton, cloth manufacture, machinery, and algebra. Along the way, Marx explains that capitalists make money by exploiting workers, that profit is just another name for unpaid labor, and that the day will come when capitalism collapses because it creates abundant goods at ever lower prices. I won’t attempt to summarize more or find fault. Read it for yourself, if you have the time.
October 23, 2022
So I gave this 5 stars simply because, it is, at this point, an iconic historical text. It's like reviewing Plato's Republic . . . you don't read it because it is an easy (or even enjoyable) read. You read it because it is a foundational document. I will offer a couple of suggestions to anyone who attempts to slog through this:
1. There are various editions and I only read Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto. I have not been through the supplementary articles/pamphlets. I liked this edition.
2. The first three chapters are really boring, so if you can make it through those, it does get better.
3. I strongly suggest either watching a companion video series and/or getting a reading aid. I did both. There is a free course on line by David Harvey, who is (or appears to be) an unapologetic Marxist. I recommend finding someone who will advocate Marx's point of view, just because I think you ought to give the devil his due. The vast majority of Western scholarship will only point out the flaws (not surprisingly given Communism's track record). But whether you agree or disagree with what is in Das Kapital, you can't deny that a lot of people found the guy persuasive.
4. The other things that I would recommend is that AFTER you read Das Kapital, you read:
(a) Eduard Bernstein - originally an apostle of Marx and Engels, who later critiqued their conclusions and predictions and was (as a result) roundly criticized by Lenin in his book, "What is to be Done?". If you read Bernstein, he does a really good job of showing, using statistics as far back as 1890, showing that what Marx and Engels predicted just was not coming true.
(b) Bakunin, Kropotkin and the anarcho-communists. They were ardent communists, but anarcho communists. They predicted, back in the 1840s, that if anyone ever took over a state and tried to implement communism while retaining the state, the result would not be a dictatorship of the proletariat, but instead a dictatorship of the state . . . which is precisely what has happened in the U.S.S.R., Cuba, the Warsaw Pact, Venezuela, North Korea, etc. Instead of the owner of capital being on top . . . the party apparatchiks and nomenklatura wind up being on top.
So . . . I would encourage anyone and everyone to read Das Kapital, but make sure you have a solid block of time to devote to it, and don't think you can just sit down and read three chapters in a sitting. It is NOT that type of book. It takes a lot of effort to figure out what the guy is trying to say.
1. There are various editions and I only read Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto. I have not been through the supplementary articles/pamphlets. I liked this edition.
2. The first three chapters are really boring, so if you can make it through those, it does get better.
3. I strongly suggest either watching a companion video series and/or getting a reading aid. I did both. There is a free course on line by David Harvey, who is (or appears to be) an unapologetic Marxist. I recommend finding someone who will advocate Marx's point of view, just because I think you ought to give the devil his due. The vast majority of Western scholarship will only point out the flaws (not surprisingly given Communism's track record). But whether you agree or disagree with what is in Das Kapital, you can't deny that a lot of people found the guy persuasive.
4. The other things that I would recommend is that AFTER you read Das Kapital, you read:
(a) Eduard Bernstein - originally an apostle of Marx and Engels, who later critiqued their conclusions and predictions and was (as a result) roundly criticized by Lenin in his book, "What is to be Done?". If you read Bernstein, he does a really good job of showing, using statistics as far back as 1890, showing that what Marx and Engels predicted just was not coming true.
(b) Bakunin, Kropotkin and the anarcho-communists. They were ardent communists, but anarcho communists. They predicted, back in the 1840s, that if anyone ever took over a state and tried to implement communism while retaining the state, the result would not be a dictatorship of the proletariat, but instead a dictatorship of the state . . . which is precisely what has happened in the U.S.S.R., Cuba, the Warsaw Pact, Venezuela, North Korea, etc. Instead of the owner of capital being on top . . . the party apparatchiks and nomenklatura wind up being on top.
So . . . I would encourage anyone and everyone to read Das Kapital, but make sure you have a solid block of time to devote to it, and don't think you can just sit down and read three chapters in a sitting. It is NOT that type of book. It takes a lot of effort to figure out what the guy is trying to say.
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