Karl Marx Frederick Engles 1920 Capital Analysis Of Capitalist Production
Item History & Price
Hardcover. 8vo. William Glaisher, Ltd, London, UK. 1920. xxxi, 816 pgs. Bound in brick red cloth with gilt titles present to the spine. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards (boards are lightly rubbed and worn). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. 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 ge...nerates. 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. 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. 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.” A vital cornerstone to Marx’s overall theory of economics, the second volume of Capital considers in depth the nature of commodity and the market-place bourgeois society. This immensely powerful work argues that prosperity in a capitalist society inevitably holds within itself the seeds of its own destruction. Karl Marx Frederick Engles 1920 Capital Analysis Of Capitalist Production
