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Das Kapital, Gateway Edition (Skeptical Reader) Paperback – Abridged, July 1, 1996

by Karl Marx (Author), Friedrich Engels (Editor), Serge L. Levitsky (Introduction)

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Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth century. From Kapital sprung the economic and political systems that at one time dominated half the earth and for nearly a century kept the world on the brink of war. Even today, more than one billion Chinese citizens live under a regime that proclaims fealty to Marxist ideology. Yet this important tome has been passed over by many readers frustrated by Marx’s difficult style and his preoccupation with nineteenth-century events of little relevance to today's reader.

Here Serge Levitsky presents a revised version of Kapital, abridged to emphasize the political and philosophical core of Marx’s work while trimming away much that is now unimportant. Pointing out Marx’s many erroneous predictions about the development of capitalism, Levitsky's introduction nevertheless argues for Kapital's relevance as a prime example of a philosophy of economic determinism that "subordinates the problems of human freedom and human dignity to the issues of who should own the means of production and how wealth should be distributed."

Here then is a fresh and highly readable version of a work whose ideas provided inspiration for communist regimes' ideological war against capitalism, a struggle that helped to shape the world today.

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Das Kapital, Karl Marx's masterwork, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth century. From Kapital sprung the economic and political systems that in our time dominated half the earth and for half a century kept the world on the brink of war. Even today, one billion Chinese remain in the power of the Marxist system. Yet this important and powerful work has been passed over by many readers frustrated by Marx's difficult style and his preoccupation with nineteenth-century events of little relevance to today's reader. Now Serge Levitsky presents a new revised version of this masterpiece, carefully retranslated for the modern reader and abridged to emphasize the political and philosophical core of Marx's work, while trimming away much that is now unimportant. Here then is a fresh and highly readable version of a work whose ideas have influenced the lives of nearly every person alive today.

Series: Skeptical Reader
Paperback: 356 pages
Publisher: Gateway Editions; Reprint edition (July 1, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780895267115
ISBN-13: 978-0895267115
ASIN: 089526711X
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 38 customer reviews
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Daryn Haffer

Introduction has an extremely neoliberal capitalist bias. Levitsky used ...

March 5, 2016

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Introduction has an extremely neoliberal capitalist bias. Levitsky used over half of the introduction calling it an "erroneous doctrine" that has already been proven false. He goes on to lay out events that he claims Karl Marx never foreshadowed and thus deems Das Kapital false of: joint stock (which the ruling class owns most of), the growing middle class (published in 2009 after the recession while the middle class had been shrinking for 40 years), unions making revolution not necessary (unions have been shrinking as well.) He claims that the text is abridged and all non applicable points to today's economy are left out. It seems some other people who wrote reviews have did some research on Levitsky and have found ties to conservative publishing.

How can one trust him after such a biased intro?

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Bad Monkey

Germans like beer. I'm still waiting for my colleague to ...

May 22, 2017

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This book is in German. It says that in the listing but I didn't pay attention. I don't speak or read German so I have no idea what it says. So, if you don't speak German and you're buying this for yourself and don't plan on learning German you might want to get something else. However, if you have a colleague that teaches German and needs something to get his students to practice you might give it to them in hopes that they return the favor and buy you beer or something. Germans like beer. I'm still waiting for my colleague to give me some beer.

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June 17, 2009

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As a history teacher, it is always nice to get back into the text and re-discover what history is all about. Economic theory is somehting that has eluded me for a long time. This book is outstanding.

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September 2, 2009

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THIS IS AN ABRIDGED VERSION of Das Kaptial. It's cover is plastic-like and the entire thing comes off more like a toy than a book. I recommend getting a different one.

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L. Hassell

If you think Marxism is dead

October 28, 2010

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then you don't know that the USSR and China were never and could never have been Marxist states. And the German is essential.

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Sao Volak

Document that changed the world so much

March 2, 2009

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It may not be easy to fully understand the rationale behind what has origially driven Karl Max to write "Das Kapital", but this very document has surely created the Cold War that divided the world so deeply and so painfully. It caused so many lives, so much miserable living conditions to so million people around the world.

So far, there's maybe no other document in the world history that killed so many people with the same grave impact as Das Kapital.

Volak Sao
Phnom Penh

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March 25, 2014

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This is the third work by Marx that I've read; The Communist Manifesto and The Eighteenth Brumaire previously. If you're going to read Marx, be prepared that his strong point isn't brevity. It can take pages, if not chapters, for Marx to make a point if ever a point is to be made. His writing is abstruse and many times inconsequential. If you've read Nietzsche, be prepared for similar madman rants.

If you want to save yourself some time, I suggest reading the Introduction by Serge Levitsky. He makes some lucid points about "Das Kapital". I agree with him as well that "Das Kapital" is "obsolete, irrelevant, and torturous prose."The book in a nut shell is this formula (though it is chock-full of formulas) Profit - Labor = Theft.

I disagree on nearly every point made in this book; few they were. Those that were made were not done so, to me, in full context. My major disagreement with Marx is that he hunts the wrong bogeyman. His bogeyman, the Capitalist, is nothing without the true power-broker, the State. Had this book been called "Das Staaten" and divulged all the ways in which the State creates monopoly, picks winners and losers, centralizes power, and colludes with Capitalists, etc...then I may have become a Marxist years ago. I've never been a vigorous follower of Praxeology, but if a case were to be made, it would begin with "Das Kapital".

Unfortunately, he makes a strenuous argument equating voluntary actions to slavery. Marx is selling something that I can't buy. The modern day irony is that this Luddite claptrap seems to be regaining popularity through Kindles, Ipads, and Nooks. I guess the Capitalists did win.

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William Griffith

After reading this ponderous tome it is difficult for me ...

July 22, 2015

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After reading this ponderous tome it is difficult for me to understand how communism ever got started. The entire thesis is that plant owners make money and that they could make less and pay their labor more than a basic living wage.

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