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The Grundrisse was a set of notebooks Karl Marx wrote in 1857-58 while preparing for what would eventually become Capital.
Indifference was the world’s first reaction to Karl Marx’s magnum opus. In 1867, when the first volume of “Capital” was published in German, it was greeted with such silence that the ...
Around this time, Marx came to believe that capitalism was doomed, and he did what he could to hasten its demise. Together with his collaborator, Friedrich Engels, he wrote The Communist Manifesto ...
During the five or so years I spent translating Capital into English, I devoted a great deal of time to the task of re-rendering Marx’s conceptual vocabulary.Some of his key terms are built from ...
With new capital comes a new capitalism—perhaps one, finally, that Marx could warm to. Ryan Avent is a senior editor at The Economist and the author of The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and ...
We don't usually think of capital as an actor in itself, which may be why Das Kapital is the only classic work of Marx whose title we usually leave in German. It makes the concept seem alien ...
This is a response to an article originally posted on the MIT Technology review . The article claims that the nature of capital has changed so much from the newly industrialized economies Marx knew ...
I asked him why Marx’s ideas are still relevant, what he got right and wrong about capitalism, and what the modern left might learn from Marx. Sean Illing Tell me why Karl Marx still matters.
Translating Marx’s Capital might be daunting to some, but Paul North, professor of Germanic languages and literature at Yale, and Paul Reitter, professor of Germanic languages and literature at ...
Marx himself suggested that capital’s “subsumption” of labor gave everyday life an illusory quality in which it seemed as though commodities were more real than the humans who made them.
Capitalism. When Karl Marx Made the Case for Capitalism In barely a century, capitalism led to more productivity "than have all preceding generations together," Marx and Friedrich Engels argued.
Karl Marx’s Capital has been perennially embraced by those trying to understand and move beyond the capitalist system—and reviled in equal measure by those defending the established order. Yet, until ...