Capital — Karl Marx

A classic of early modernism Capital combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of mid Victorian capitalist society It has also proved to be the most influential work in social science in the twentieth century Marx did for social science what Darwin had done for biology Millions of readers this century have treated Capital as a sacred text subjecting it to as many different interpretations as the bible itself No mere work of dry economics Marxs great work depicts the unfolding of industrial capitalism as a tragic drama with a message which has lost none of its relevance today This is the only abridged edition to take account of the whole of Capital It offers virtually all of Volume 1 which Marx himself published in 1867 excerpts from a new translation of The Result of the Immediate Process of Production and a selection of key chapters from Volume 3 which Engels published in 1895