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Capital A Critique of Political Economy

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ISBN-10: 0486477487

ISBN-13: 9780486477480

Edition: 2011

Authors: Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Edward Aveling, Friedrich Engels

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Arguing that capitalism would create an ever increasing division in wealth and welfare, Marx predicts its abolition and replacement by a system with common ownership of the means of production.
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Book details

List price: $20.25
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Dover Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/17/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 880
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.50" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Karl Heinrich Marx, one of the fathers of communism, was born on May 5, 1818 in Trier, Germany. He was educated at a variety of German colleges, including the University of Jena. He was an editor of socialist periodicals and a key figure in the Working Man's Association. Marx co-wrote his best-known work, "The Communist Manifesto" (1848), with his friend, Friedrich Engels. Marx's most important work, however, may be "Das Kapital" (1867), an analysis of the economics of capitalism. He died on March 14, 1883 in London, England.

Friedrich Engels is perhaps best remembered as the confidant, colleague, and benefactor of Karl Marx. Born into a Calvinist family that owned fabric mills in the Rhineland and had business interests in Manchester, England, Engels joined the family business at age 16; he never had a formal university education. Despite his family's industrial background, Engels was sympathetic to the poverty of the working masses. At age 18 he published an attack on industrial poverty, and later joined the Hegelian movement that so influenced Marx and bothered conservative Prussian authorities. Engels first met Marx in 1842, while Marx was editor of a radical newspaper in Cologne. However, they did not…