![]() ![]() “Booklovers turn to Karl Marx as financial crisis bites in Germany”, the Guardian reported 15 October 2008. Since then there seems to have been a resurgence of interest in Capital whenever capitalism has been in trouble. It is no wonder that Das Kapital came to be known in Germany as ‘the Bible of the working class’ however, its dissemination and reception in Britain did not really gain momentum until it was translated in full around the turn of the century. In England they were described by Charles Dickens in novels such as Hard Times and Bleak House in France by Victor Hugo ( Les Misérables) in Denmark by Hans Christian Andersen and others. Living conditions of the mid-nineteenth-century proletariat were generally miserable all over Europe. It was subtitled ‘a critique of political economy’, but it was far more than that it was a devastating intellectual attack on the economic pillars of industrial capitalism. One hundred and fifty years ago, the first volume of Karl Marx’s magnum opus, Das Kapital, edited by Friedrich Engels, was published in Germany. ![]()
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