1890 Karl MARX 1ed Capital Economics Capitalism Communism Socialism Engels RARE

1890 Karl MARX 1^ed Capital Economics Capitalism Communism Socialism Engels RARE

“The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”

― Karl Marx

‘Capital’ is one of the most important and foundational texts on materialist capitalism, written by German economic philosopher Karl Marx. Along with the ‘Communist Manifesto’, ‘Capital’ was one of the motivating forces that propelled the exploitation of labor and unpaid capitalism in Europe. He presents structures for capitalism by means of production during economic crises and how to use technology to produce material wealth. ‘Das Kapital’, as it was originally titled, was published in separate parts, and the second and third parts were published posthumously.

This rare 1890 German edition was collected and edited by Friedrich Engels and is considered the most important and best German edition of ‘Capital’. Engels includes commentary and annotations on Marx as well as his own perspectives on political economics.

Item number: #26615

Price: $1950

MARX, Karl

Das Kapital: Kritik der politischen Oekonomie

Hamburg: Verlag von Otto Meissner, 1890-1894. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • 1 – XXXII, 739, [1]
  • 2 – XXVII, [1], 500
  • 3
    • Part I – XXVIII, 448
    • Part II – IV, 422
  • References: Einaudi 3772; Mattioli 2284; Sraffa 3867
    • PMM: “Marx himself modestly described Das Kapital as a continuation of his Zur Kritik de politischen Oekonomie, 1859. It was in fact the summation of his quarter of a century’s economic studies, mostly in the Reading Room of the British Museum. The Athenaeum reviewer of the first English translation (1887) later wrote: ‘Under the guise of a critical analysis of capital, Karl Marx’s work is principally a polemic against capitalists and the capitalist mode of production, and it is this polemical tone which is its chief charm’. The historical-polemical passages, with their formidable documentation from British official sources, have remained memorable; and, as Marx (a chronic furunculosis victim) wrote to Engels while the volume was still in the press, ‘I hope the bourgeoisie will remember my carbuncles all the rest of their lives’.”
  • Language: German
  • Binding: Leather; secure
  • Size: ~8.5in X 6.25in (21.5cm x 15.5cm)
  • Exceedingly rare, valuable, and desirable

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