MARX`S DAS KAPITAL - A BIOGRAPHY - FRANCIS WHEEN

130 PAGE SOFTCOVER BOOK IN GOOD CONDITION 

In vivid detail, Francis Wheen tells the story of Das Kapital and Karl Marxs twenty-year struggle to complete his unfinished masterpiece. Born in a two-room flat in Londons Soho amid political squabbles and personal tragedy, the first volume of Das Kapital was published in 1867, to muted praise. But after Marxs 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. Wheens captivating, accessible book 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. Furthermore, Wheen argues, as long as capitalism endures, Das Kapital demands to be read and understood.