Capital
by Karl Marx
Capital (Das Kapital) is Karl Marx's critique of political economy, whose first volume was published by Otto Meissner in Hamburg in 1867. Engels edited Volumes II (1885) and III (1894) after Marx's death. The first English translation, by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling, appeared in 1887.
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- Otto Meissner, Hamburg, 1867
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- Capital Volume I, Marxists Internet Archive (marxists.org)
- The first British translation of any part of Das Kapital, Lynge & Son (lynge.com)
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