Capital; A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production

1943 edition of Karl Marx's classic critique

Author

Karl Marx, edited by Frederick Engels, translated by Samuel Moore & Edward Aveling, with supplement edited and translated by Dona Torr

Publisher

George Allen & Unwin, London, 1943

Capital; A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production

Printing Details

Second impression of the 1938 edition (a photographic reprint of the stereotyped edition of 1889). Hardback, bound in the original cloth with red printing to spine. 22 × 14cm, 882pp.

One of the most notorious works of modern times, as well as one of the most influential, "Capital" is an incisive critique of private property and the social relations it generates. Living in exile in England, where this work was largely written, Marx drew on a wide-ranging knowledge of its society to support his analysis and generate fresh insights. Arguing that capitalism would create an ever-increasing division in wealth and welfare, he predicted its abolition and replacement by a system with common ownership of the means of production.