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Marx's Das Kapital:

A Biography
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Atlantic Monthly Press, Nov 10, 2007 - Political Science - 130 pages
In vivid detail, Francis Wheen tells the story of Das Kapital and Karl Marx's twenty-year struggle to complete his unfinished masterpiece. Born in a two-room flat in London's Soho amid political squabbles and personal tragedy, the first volume of Das Kapital was published in 1867, to muted praise. But after Marx's 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. Wheen's 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.
  

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User Review  - Nick - Goodreads

Poor, light, an excuse to cash in a pay ... The work is superficial, flimsy (about 100 pages); and the only part somehow worth reading is the final (about 8-10 pages) - where the author reminds us of ... Read full review

Review: Marx's Das Kapital: A Biography (Books That Changed the World)

User Review  - Elliot Ratzman - Goodreads

Das Kapital is a book about economics that changed the world; but is it art? Wheen shows how Marx created a cross between a Gothic novel and a Greek tragedy where capitalism eats its children, vampire ... Read full review

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About the author (2007)

Francis Wheen is an award-winning columnist for "The Guardian" in London, & the deputy editor of "Private Eye".

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