Capital
Category: Literature
Tags: Literature
Das Kapital is an extensive treatise on political economy written in German by Karl Marx and edited in part by Friedrich Engels. The book is a critical analysis of capintalism. Its first volume was published in 1867., According to Marx, the central driving force of capintalism was in the exploitation and alienation of labour. The ultimate source of capintalist profits and surplus was the unpaid labor of wage laborers. Employers could appropriate the new output value because of their ownership of the productive capintal assetsprotected by the state. By producing output as capintal for the employers, the workers constantly reproduced the condition of capintalism by their labor., Title pageHowever, though Marx is very concerned with the social aspects of commerce, his book is not an ethical treatise, but an attempt to explain the objective laws of motion of the capintalist system as a whole, its origins and future. He aims to reveal the causes and dynamics of the accumulation of capintal,
