About Karl Marx
German philosopher, economist, and revolutionary (1818–1883), the most influential critic of capitalism in the modern era. Capital, Volume I (1867) is his mature analysis of the capitalist mode of production: the commodity, the labour theory of value, surplus value, and the exploitation built into the wage relation. Marx argues that capitalism's drive to accumulate generates both extraordinary productivity and recurrent crisis, immiseration, and class conflict. Written over decades in the British Library after his exile from the Continent, it remains the foundational text of the socialist tradition and of the critique of political economy.
Books by Karl Marx
Capital, Volume I
Marx’s major critique of capitalism, commodity production, labor, exploitation, and accumulation.
Read about this book →Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
A key text for understanding alienation, labor, and the humanist side of Marx.
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A brilliant Marxist analysis of class, political crisis, leadership, and state power.
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