Review: Das Kapital (Das Kapital #1)
User Review - Shane - Goodreadsrelegated to reference shelf. he may have been wrong about marxism (of which he claimed he never was one) but he knew capitalism and very correctly points out its flaws and inconsistencies. das ... Read full review
Review: Das Kapital (Das Kapital #1)
User Review - Koen - GoodreadsMore relevant than ever! Capitalism is a system that will pass, just like other systems have passed, and maybe with the current global crisis we've finally hit the boundaries of it. Tragically ... Read full review
Review: Das Kapital (Das Kapital #1)
User Review - Robert Mahon - GoodreadsLet's face it, Marx was more philosopher than economist. He spent a lifetime trying to justify a particular ideology/philosophy....based primarily on jealousy. He insists upon putting an intrinsic ... Read full review
Review: Das Kapital (Das Kapital #1)
User Review - Austin Wimberly - GoodreadsI gave this book five stars for the influence it continues to have. Despite the fall of communist regimes around the world (and I realize there's a whole other debate about whether or not those ... Read full review
Review: Das Kapital (Das Kapital #1)
User Review - Jared Houston - GoodreadsCan you believe this guy? Read full review
Review: Das Kapital (Das Kapital #1)
User Review - Steven Beales - GoodreadsAfter reading Plato's Republic and 1984, I pictured Das Kapital as a Marxist epic about a bleak totalitarian, Capitalist state. I was rather disappointed to real a dull and inaccurate (Labor Theory of Value) Economics book. Read full review
Review: Das Kapital (Das Kapital #1)
User Review - Ben - GoodreadsI have to be honest when I think of the of millions of lives lost in pursuit of the principles laid out in this book - and yes all those dictators were implementing their version of Marxism, they ... Read full review
Review: Das Kapital (Das Kapital #1)
User Review - Thomas Fackler - GoodreadsMarx waxes on and doesn't have a very good grasp of mathematics or modeling, but in both is a typical economist which is why this book has been a fundamental economic work from the mid-19th century to ... Read full review
Review: Das Kapital (Das Kapital #1)
User Review - Alex - GoodreadsBrilliant. The book that shaped the 20th century. Those 'Muricans who accuse people or governments of "being socialists" have absolutely no idea, nor the desire, I imagine, to read Marx's masterpiece. Not that they would understand, anyway. Read full review
Review: Das Kapital (Das Kapital #1)
User Review - Josh Taylor - GoodreadsReading it yourself is better than getting second-hand from supposed Marxists such as Socialist Workers Party, if you want to get really into it read Smith, Ricardo and JS Mill alongside it. Read full review