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The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital

The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital

by Karl MarxRobert Weick and Friedrich Engels
Paperback
Publication Date: 14/02/2019

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In The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, now available in a highly designed paperback with flaps, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels discuss class struggles and the problems of a capitalist society.

The unabridged versions of these definitive works are now available together as a highly designed paperback with flaps with a new introduction by Robert Weick. Part of the Knickerbocker Classics series, a modern design makes this timeless book a perfect travel companion.

Considered to be one of the most influential political writings, The Communist Manifesto is as relevant today as when it was originally published. This pamphlet by the German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, published in 1884 as revolutions were erupting across Europe, discusses class struggles and the problems of a capitalist society.

After being exiled to London, Marx published the first part of Das Kapital, a theoretical text that argues that capitalism will create greater and greater division in wealth and welfare and ultimately be replaced by a system of common ownership of the means of production. After Marx's death, Engels completed and published the second and third parts from his colleague's notes.

ISBN:
9780785837022
9780785837022
Category:
Marxism & Communism
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
14-02-2019
Publisher:
Crestline Books
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
252
Dimensions (mm):
191x146mm
Karl Marx

Karl Marx was born in the German city of Trier in 1818. He studied law in Bonn and Berlin at his father's insistence, but his true interests lay elsewhere and, in 1841, he received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Jena.

For the next two years he wrote for radical left-wing newspapers before moving to Paris with his wife, Jenny; there he became a communist and met his lifelong friend and collaborator, Friedrich Engels.

They published their revolutionary pamphlet, The Communist Manifesto, in 1848 and Marx moved to London a year later. He spent the rest of his life there - often in considerable poverty - while he wrote his magnum opus of political theory, Das Kapital. Karl Marx died in 1883.

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