Das Kapital

Name: Das Kapital
Author: Karl Marx

by Karl Marx

Critique of political economy analyzing capitalist production and surplus value

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Karl Marx

German philosopher, economist, and revolutionary whose analysis of capitalism and historical materialism transformed world history. The Communist Manifesto announced the class struggle; Das Kapital analyzed the mechanisms of exploitation. His ideas inspired revolutions across the globe and remain the most discussed theory of society in the modern era.

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