Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all
others formed the twentieth century. From Kapital sprung the
economic and political systems that at one time dominated half the
earth and for nearly a century kept the world on the brink of war.
Even today, more than one billion Chinese citizens live under a
regime that proclaims fealty to Marxist ideology. Yet this
important tome 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.
Here Serge Levitsky presents a revised version of Kapital, abridged
to emphasize the political and philosophical core of Marx's work
while trimming away much that is now unimportant. Pointing out
Marx's many erroneous predictions about the development of
capitalism, Levitsky's introduction nevertheless argues for
Kapital's relevance as a prime example of a philosophy of economic
determinism that "subordinates the problems of human freedom and
human dignity to the issues of who should own the means of
production and how wealth should be distributed." Here then is a
fresh and highly readable version of a work whose ideas provided
inspiration for communist regimes' ideological war against
capitalism, a struggle that helped to shape the world today.
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