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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What is capitalism, as described in this excerpt from Das Kapital?

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

When, in Das Kapital, Marx speaks of the hoarding of commodities, he notes that the hoarder “sacrifices the lusts of the flesh to his gold fetish” and adopts “the gospel of renunciation”.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 17, 2020

Other memorabilia include a bearded Karl Marx rubber duck with an edition of Das Kapital tucked under one wing.

From Reuters ● Apr. 18, 2018

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