Das Kapital Analysis

Marx would be the first to say that his analysis is constrained by his historical time. He believed the economic mode of production you live under vastly influences your ideas and attitudes, so eve...

Das Kapital isn't a work of fiction, so it doesn't have a narrator in the conventional sense.But Marx is something of a narrator himself, using the first person plural (the royal we, as it's joking...

In Marx's day, economics was known as political economy. It combined a science- and math-y vibe (that's the economy part) with headstrong ideas about how society should function politically (that's...

Karl switches his tone up throughout the book, taking an abstract, theoretical tone in some sections—such as the first three of Chapter 1—and taking an angry one in others, such as most of Chap...

Count on Marx to write out every last drop of info about his theory—and then to repeat it all several times to make sure you've got it. He's changing the world, man, and he doesn't want you to ge...

Okay, so Das Kapital means "Capital" in German—you probably already figured that out. The point of the title is that Marx is analyzing capitalism, and the main motor of that economic system is—...

Marx has a few different styles of chapter endings.Half of them, chapters 4, 7, and 14, end pretty basically with theoretical information. Here's Chapter 4: "M-C-M' is in fact therefore the general...

This book ain't exactly easy. Not that we're surprised.We wonder if Marx truly wanted it to be read by workers during their copious free time (not), since he name-drops obscure historical figures a...

Working all the time Marx says: Nothing characterizes the spirit of capital better than the history of English factory legislation from 1833 to 1864 (10.6.3), and that's what we'll look at for our...

Chapter 10 gives us description after description of the willingness of capitalists to overwork employees before we get to its sixth section, which depicts the struggle to reform the factories thro...

Marx says: Nothing characterizes the spirit of capital better than the history of English factory legislation from 1833 to 1864 (10.6.3), and that's what we'll look at for our plot analyses, as it'...

One of Marx's most famous lines is: The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. (Source.)According to Friedrich Engels, Marx's collaborator, Karl,...

Frown. This book has no steaminess to it at all. Unless you count factory steam. Women don't get any significant attention, either: they're just regarded as workers who are classified with young pe...

Karl Marx, Zur Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie (1.1.1) Nicholas Barbob, A Discourse on Coining the New Money Lighter. In Answer to Mr. Locke's Considerations etc. (1.1.2)John Locke, 'Some Consider...