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

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

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

Pre-gilets jaunes, he was a loud-mouthed young man more likely to watch Top Gear than to read Das Kapital or Mein Kampf.

From The Guardian • Feb. 9, 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