Das Kapital

American  

[dahs kah-pi-tahl] / dɑs ˌkɑ pɪˈtɑl /

noun

1. a work (1867) by Karl Marx, dealing with economic, social, and political relations within society and containing the tenets on which modern communism is based.

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Das Kapital Cultural  

1. (3 vol., 1861, 1885, 1894) The greatest work by Karl Marx (see also Marx) on economics; the title is German for “capital.” It describes the capitalist system in highly critical terms and predicts its defeat by socialism.

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Example Sentences

Marx’s book Das Kapital, published in 1867, is one of history’s most often cited sources on economics and politics.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

In 1867, Marx published the first volume of Das Kapital, and it quickly reached a wide audience among those interested in history, economics, and politics.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

He was also influenced by a copy of Karl Marx's book, Das Kapital, which had been sent to the prisoners by the Soviet embassy.

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2020

You don’t have to have digested Karl Marx’s Das Kapital to recognise that companies are driven by the profit motive, not changing the world.

From The Guardian • May 23, 2019

It seemed to many, including Karl Marx who published the first part of Das Kapital in 1867, to promote nothing but widespread poverty, inequality and hopelessness.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall