Das Kapital

[ German dahs kah-pi-tahl ]

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.

Das Kapital

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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Marx's exposition of the doctrine in Das Kapital is the extreme of abstract reasoning.

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This law is set forth in the third section of the third book (posthumous) of Das Kapital.

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With the help of a great deal of coffee, I even read Das Kapital.

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But it seems doubtful whether he would have brought Das Kapital, his main work, to a satisfactory conclusion.

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He did not, however, succeed in publishing further volumes of Das Kapital.

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