On 2009-01-28 Joe Average, Florida wrote: Karl Marx spent much of his life writing Das Kapital (publishing only the first volume before his death, and never seeing any translations in English). He was clearly cursed with a genius that allowed him to write a text an entire century before its time. Rather than spoil the story, I´ll leave the details to your hungry mind.
Westerners have largely been taught that Marx and Socialism/Communism are evil. Much of the blame can be placed at the feet of Lenin. However, Marx was just a man who observed working conditions around him, and developed a theory on how these workers would, one day, become liberated from their chains of bondage.
Marx was rather surprised that his work was so popular in Russia. He wrote his theories using English workers during the Industrial Revolution.
A good 90-minute book. I recommend it!. And summed up by saying Quick read about the man behind Das Kapital. Currently Marx´s Das Kapital: A Biography (Books That Changed the World) has an overall rating of 8 over 10.
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Atlantic Monthly Press claimed In this brilliant book, “as gripping and as readable as a first-rate thriller,” Francis Wheen, author of the most successful biography of Karl Marx, tells the story of Das Kapital and Karl Marx’s twenty-year struggle to complete his unfinished masterpiece. (The Sunday Telegraph) Born in a two room flat in London’s Soho amid political squabbles and personal tragedy, the first volume of Das Kapital was published in 1867, to muted praise. But after Marx’s death, the book went on to influence thinkers, writers, and revolutionaries, from George Bernard Shaw to V. I. Lenin, changing the direction of twentieth century history. In this “exhilarating read,” Wheen shows that, far from being a dry economic treatise, Das Kapital is like a vast Gothic novel whose heroes are enslaved by the monster they created: capitalism. (The Times, London) Furthermore, Wheen argues, as long as capitalism endures, Das Kapital demands to be read and understood.
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