Capital, Volume I: A Critique of Political Economy
Item
- Title
- Capital, Volume I: A Critique of Political Economy
- Abstract/Description
- Hailed by Friedrich Engels as the bible of the working class, this 1867 classic of political economics changed the course of history. Thirty years in the making, Capital, Volume I was the first installment of Karl Marx's three-part Das Kapital and the only volume published during his lifetime. Marx declared that society is evolving from crude, unbalanced economic systems toward a utopian state -- specifically, communism. His critiques of private property and class struggles aroused tremendous interest and exercised an influence that resonates to this day. Marx offers a penetrating analysis of capitalism's inner workings, examining commodities, value, money, and other factors related to the system's historic origins and contemporary functions. These considerations form the framework for his conclusion: the system cannot be reformed and must be overthrown by a revolution, resulting in a socialist society in which production serves the needs of every individual rather than generating profits for the few.
- Author/creator
- Marx, Karl
- Date
- Volume
- 1
- Publisher
- Courier Corporation
- Resource type
- en Research/Scholarly Media
- Resource status/form
- en Published Text
- Scholarship genre
- en Textbook
- Language
- en
- Open access/full-text available
- en No
- Peer reviewed
- en No
- ISBN
- 978-0-486-47748-0
- Citation
- Marx, K. (2011). Capital, Volume I: A Critique of Political Economy (Vol. 1). Courier Corporation.
- Cited in
- Accomplishing Meaningful Equity
- Item sets
- Handbook Chapter 5 Citations
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