6/20/2023 0 Comments Das kapital english![]() ![]() ![]() "Das Kapital" is the latest in the series from the Atlantic Monthly Press we featured on Books That Changed the World. Known as the father of communism, the German philosopher and political economist needed more than 20 years to finish his critique of industrial capitalism, partly because he kept getting distracted by other projects, like learning Russian or figuring out how electricity works.Īnd while we think of his epic tome as a treatise on economics, Marx's biographer Francis Wheen argues you could also consider it a comedy, a tragedy or a gothic horror story with as much satire as dialectic. Karl Marx's masterwork is forbiddingly long and dauntingly dense - a book cited more often than read -but unquestionably one of the more influential books in history. I'm Neal Conan in Washington.įormer British Prime Minister Harold Wilson spoke for many when he said he started to read "Das Kapital" and gave up on page two. ![]()
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