Capital: A Critique of Political Economy and Manifesto of the Communist Party

"Capital" (Das Kapital) is a truly revolutionary book; it was forged in both the political and industrial revolutions of the nineteenth century and became the keystone of many Communist revolutions of the twentieth. In this comprehensive analysis of capitalist economics and expression of his theory of class conflict, Karl Marx (1818-1883) relentlessly argues that the accumulation of capital can only be achieved by bourgeoisie exploitation of the working classes. This volume includes "The Communist Manifesto" which, written with friend and colleague Frederick Engels, not only pictures a wholly equal society in which neither property nor money exist, but suggests that this vision of the future is a natural and inevitable consequence of the class struggle that dominates human history.