![]() ![]() ![]() Capital rapidly acquired readership throughout the world, to become a work described by Marx's collaborator Friedrich Engels as 'the Bible of the working class'. 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. 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. Thirty years in the making, Capital, Volume I was the first installment of Karl Marxs three-part Das Kapital and the only volume published during his lifetime. ![]() Marx and Engels agreed that the French translation was flatter (they both use. One of the most notorious and influential works of modern times, Capital is an incisive critique of private property and the social relations it generates. Marx published the first volume of Das Kapital in 1867, by which time he had settled in London with his family, and was being financially supported by Friedrich Engels, the rich son of a cotton. going revision of the whole book after he had published Volumes 2 and 3.3. It is also a literary masterpice' Francis Wheen, Guardian 'A groundbreaking work of economic analysis. Volume 3 Issue 1 (1986): Fall/Winter 1986-87 Issue 2 (1987): Spring/Summer 1987. ![]()
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