Das Kapital (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Karl Marx
- First Published: 1867
- Type of Work: Political
- Genres: Nonfiction, Politics, Economics
- Subjects: Communism or communists, Revolutionaries, Socialism, Nineteenth century, Economics, Capitalism
Critical Evaluation:
According to Karl Marx, the Russian Revolution was as inevitable as the subsequent worldwide growth of communism as a dynamic political force. It may be, however, that communism would not have emerged had it not been for Marx’s having written Das Kapital. Even if economic unbalance had resulted in a revolutionary uprising of the proletariat somewhere, it might not have taken the form it did or occurred when it did without the immense influence of this book.
Many of Marx’s revolutionary ideas had already been expressed in his Communist...
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See Also:
Karl Marx (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Karl Marx (Censorship)Karl Marx (Ethics)Karl Marx (World Philosophers)
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