Capital: Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy (Penguin Classics)

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The first volume of a political treatise that changed the world

One of the most notorious works of modern times, in addition to one of the crucial influential, Capital is an incisive critique of private property and the social relations it generates. Living in exile in England, where this work used to be largely written, Marx drew on a wide-ranging knowledge of its society to give a boost to 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 hastily acquired readership a number of the leaders of social democratic parties, particularly in Russia in Germany, and in the long run during the world, to grow to be a work described by Marx friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels as “the Bible of the working class.”

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