Product Description

"Das Kapital", Karl Marx's masterwork, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth century. From Kapital sprung the economic and political systems that in our time dominated half the earth and for half a century kept the world on the brink of war. Even today, one billion Chinese remain in the power of the Marxist system. Yet this important and powerful work has been passed over by many readers frustrated by Marx's difficult style and his preoccupation with nineteenth-century events of little relevance to today's reader. Serge Levitsky presents a new revised version of this masterpiece, carefully translated for the modern reader and abridged to emphasize the political and philosophical core of Marx's work, while trimming away much that is now unimportant. Here then is a fresh and highly readable version of a work whose ideas have influenced the lives of nearly every person alive today.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18083 in Books
• Published on: 2009-03-05
• Format: Abridged
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Customer Reviews

Heavily Abridged, No Footnotes and References
This is a heavily abridged version of Das Kapital which on top of that has no references and no footnotes. Given that this piece of information is not available in the description of the item which is supposed to be a 'Collector's Edition' I felt cheated when I got this book for which I paid an unreasonable sum of money.

Info From The Publisher
I publish 50 political classics - all hardbacks - Das Kapital is my best seller. For a list of the books available please e-mail me a frederick659@yahoo.com