Marx organized the International and helped found the Social Democratic Party of Germany. His Das Kapital came out in three volumes (1867, 18). Marx worked as foreign correspondent for several U.S. After the failed revolution of 1848 in Germany, in which Marx participated, he eventually wound up in London. He and Engels founded the Communist League in 1847 and published the Communist Manifesto. After being expelled from France at the urging of the Prussian government, which 'banished' Marx in absentia, Marx studied economics in Brussels. Educated at the Universities of Bonn, Jena, and Berlin, Marx founded the Socialist newspaper Vorwärts! in 1844 in Paris. His father, born Jewish, converted to Protestantism shortly before Karl's birth in response to a prohibition newly introduced into the Rhineland by the Prussian Kingdom on Jews practicing law. Marx was born in Trier, a city then in the Kingdom of Prussia's Province of the Lower Rhine. (University of Jena, 1841) was a social scientist who was a key contributor to the development of Communist theory. 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. 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 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. 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. Even today, more than one billion Chinese citizens live under a regime that proclaims fealty to Marxist ideology. 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. Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth century.

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