Capital: A Critical Analysis Of Capitalist Production
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Few texts have so profoundly reshaped the course of human history as Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production — a monumental work that tears apart the machinery of the capitalist system with surgical precision and unflinching intellectual rigour. In this first volume, Karl Marx presents a sweeping and systematic critique of political economy, dissecting the nature of commodities, labour, surplus value, and capital accumulation to reveal the hidden mechanisms of exploitation embedded within the foundations of modern industrial society. Translated from the third German edition by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling, and edited by Friedrich Engels, this English rendering preserves the full force of Marx's original argument while making it accessible to a broader readership. A cornerstone of socialist thought and one of the most influential works of the 19th century, Capital stands as both a rigorous work of economic theory and a searing indictment of the social order it chronicles. Marx's prose moves between dense analytical argument and vivid historical illustration, drawing on factory reports, parliamentary inquiries, and classical economists to build an irrefutable case. His concept of surplus value alone revolutionised how generations of thinkers understood wealth, poverty, and power — and the questions he raises about who truly benefits from the labour of others remain as urgent and unsettling today as when he first posed them.
Author: Karl Marx
Format: Hardback
Published: 1974, Progress Publishers
Genre: Politics & law
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Few texts have so profoundly reshaped the course of human history as Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production — a monumental work that tears apart the machinery of the capitalist system with surgical precision and unflinching intellectual rigour. In this first volume, Karl Marx presents a sweeping and systematic critique of political economy, dissecting the nature of commodities, labour, surplus value, and capital accumulation to reveal the hidden mechanisms of exploitation embedded within the foundations of modern industrial society. Translated from the third German edition by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling, and edited by Friedrich Engels, this English rendering preserves the full force of Marx's original argument while making it accessible to a broader readership. A cornerstone of socialist thought and one of the most influential works of the 19th century, Capital stands as both a rigorous work of economic theory and a searing indictment of the social order it chronicles. Marx's prose moves between dense analytical argument and vivid historical illustration, drawing on factory reports, parliamentary inquiries, and classical economists to build an irrefutable case. His concept of surplus value alone revolutionised how generations of thinkers understood wealth, poverty, and power — and the questions he raises about who truly benefits from the labour of others remain as urgent and unsettling today as when he first posed them.