Das Kapital

[ German dahs kah-pi-tahl ]

noun

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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Marx's exposition of the doctrine in Das Kapital is the extreme of abstract reasoning.
Historical materialism and the economics of Karl Marx | Benedetto Croce
This law is set forth in the third section of the third book (posthumous) of Das Kapital.
Historical materialism and the economics of Karl Marx | Benedetto Croce
With the help of a great deal of coffee, I even read Das Kapital.
West Of The Sun | Edgar Pangborn
But it seems doubtful whether he would have brought Das Kapital, his main work, to a satisfactory conclusion.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 17, Slice 7 | Various
He did not, however, succeed in publishing further volumes of Das Kapital.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 17, Slice 7 | Various

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Das Kapital

[ (dahs kah-pi-tahl) ]

(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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