Karl Marx's Das Kapital: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Political Economy

Jesper Fahlberg: Bought it as a joke for my slightly left leaning friend and his dad threw it out. Great laugh👍

Sweden on Sep 23, 2023

Alice: The paper back only includes the first 4 parts, or 15 chapters, of the first volume

Australia on Nov 27, 2022

Alex watson: If you want to understand how our system works, read it, CAUTION: Heavy reading not for the Faint of Heart

Canada on Oct 12, 2021

Robert Carreira: As others have reported, I too received only a portion of the book. In my case, I received only the first 14 chapters of Volume I (Volume I is 33 chapters). Moreover, the book is advertised as the entire book, which would imply all 3 volumes (I would have let that slide if it would have contained at least the whole of Vol. I, but it's not like I can purchase the second half of the Vol I book by itself). I've advised amazon to remove this listing until they get the issue fixed, it's not like anyone would want to buy half a book. That aside, the book itself is a must read, whether you're pro-marx or anti-marx (so you know what you're actually for or against). But amazon needs to fix the printing problem so the whole Vol. 1 is included, then properly advertise it as just Vol I.

United States on Oct 20, 2020

Victor Cota: Buen producto.

Mexico on Oct 02, 2019

carlos oliveira: Despite being written more than a century ago, Karl Marx’s main work is still the best way to understand the nature of this beast called capitalism. Marx moves from the most basic notion, that of commodity, to the highest levels of social organization that comprise the bourgeoisie society. At each level, he explains that our traditional notions are created to facilitate the lives of the elite, at the expense of the working class. Marx also saw and explained in this book the beginnings of the financial corporations that nowadays control entire continents.

This is also the book that helped to put in motion an enormously successful workers movement that was essential to the development of society during the 20th century. The recent setbacks for workers around the world show the perennial truth of The Capital: if workers don’t unite around their interests, the capitalist class will do everything to expropriate all that is owned by workers. This is in fact the very essence of the class struggle in the capitalist system.

United States on Mar 09, 2018

Márcio: Apesar de alguns deslocamentos de texto, excelente versão digitalizada. Os links não funcionaram. Quanto ao livro, sem palavras. Um obra prima, necessária.

Brazil on Oct 26, 2017

Sendero Santos: This is the most insightful and prescient analysis and criticism not merely of nineteenth century industrial capitalism, but Marx anticipated the GloboCapitalist financialized totalitarian business culture that currently holds the world in thrall. Whatever views a person may hold of Marx's prescription for revolutionary social upheaval, if that person has not made an intensive study of this canonical work then that has an incomplete understanding of capitalism. This is understood by even the most self-intoxicated libertarian Wall Street egoist. While Marx is certainly accessible to the autodidact it adds to one's understanding and enjoyment if one is able to find a competent and unbiased guide who is able to point out the exotic flora and fauna that one is certain to encounter in any work that is over one hundred and fifty years old. I recommend the online lectures of City University of New York professor David Harvey

United States on Aug 09, 2015

Guilherme Statter: Imagine having to go through all the booknotes and any other writings of Albert Einstein to get to that famous equatiom «energy equals mass times the speed of light squared»... Now it seems that one needs to read all the three books/volumes of «Das Kapital» to get to the very little known formula «the rate of profit equals the rate of surplus value divided by the organic composition of capital plus one»... Add to that a famous aphorism by Lenin that says «"It is impossible completely to understand Marx's Capital, and especially its first Chapter, without having thoroughly studied and understood the whole of Hegel's Logic. Consequently, half a century later none of the Marxists understood Marx!!»...
And yet that is the formula that helps (it is crucially important) to understand the dynamics of the capitalist system.
Good reading...

United States on May 24, 2014

FredK: This book is perhaps one of the most historic and influential books ever written. Now more than a century old and with a lot of water under the bridge it provides insights into the thinking at the time that makes it a must read for anyone seriously into history.

As a book on philosophy it is absolutely fascinating to see how far an intelligent man can stretch a flawed assumption. The deductions made all follow rather smoothly from the debunked labor theory of value. This leads to some absurd conclusions after a large amount of very hard reasoning. It is difficult to find a better example of this anywhere else.

Unfortunately as far as economics books go it is rather difficult to still call this one. The entire book is based on the assumption of the labor theory of value which has been completely discredited. Thus most of the conclusions are largely irrelevant as economic thoughts today as the foundations they are built on are simply not reflected in reality. The book can for example draw the conclusion that the corner store adds no value to society because if you just knew where he got all his goods you would just go to each supplier yourself and not waste your time...

United States on Feb 14, 2013