Friedrich Engels
2) Capital
Author
Series
Publisher
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Pub. Date
c1952.
Language
English
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Description
Perhaps one of the most infamous works of the modern world, Capital is the German treatise on political economy by Karl Marx that critically analyzes capitalism. First published in 1867 as the beginning of an ambitious but unfinished six-volume series, this work extensively attempts to expose and explain the capitalist mode of production and the class struggles embedded within it. Capital was written while Marx was exiled in England, and many of the...