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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Das Kapital

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

After his death in 1883, Fredrich Engels, his co-author on The Communist Manifesto, published the second and third volumes of Das Kapital based on Marx’s notes.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

It covers Xi's early career as a village official in the provinces of Shaanxi and Hebei, irrigating farms by day and devouring Karl Marx's Das Kapital in his spare time.

From Reuters ● Nov. 6, 2021

By the early 1870s, he had made a name for himself in communist circles not least for his summary of Marx's Das Kapital.

From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2015

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