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One of the crucial 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 was once in large part written, Marx drew on a wide-ranging knowledge of its society to strengthen his analysis and generate fresh insights. Arguing that capitalism would create 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” abruptly acquired readership a few of the leaders of social democratic parties, particularly in Russia and Germany, and in the end during the world, to turn out to be a work described by Marx’s friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels as ‘the Bible of the Working Class’.