
Das Kapital
by Karl Marx
Marx declared that it was his aim “to lay bare the economic law of motion of modern society”.
by Karl Marx
Marx declared that it was his aim “to lay bare the economic law of motion of modern society”.
He achieved this in the book that became the bible of 20th-century communism.
Like many sacred texts, it’s notoriously hard going.
Refugees from its pages often find light relief in Marx’s much more accessible The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.
This masterpiece of Victorian journalism contains the celebrated zinger that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.
If only Das Kapital had been as pithy...
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