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Capital: An Abridged Edition (Oxford World's Classics) Abridged Edition

by Karl Marx (Author), David McLellan (Editor)
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A classic of early modernism, Capital combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of mid-Victorian capitalist society. It has proved to be the most influential work in twentieth-century social science; Marx did for social science what Darwin had done for biology. This is the only abridged edition to take into account the whole of Capital. It offers virtually all of Volume 1, which Marx himself published in 1867; excerpts from a new translation of "The Result of the Immediate Process Production"; and a selection of key chapters from Volume 3, which Engels published in 1895.

About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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  5. Publication date
    May 15, 2008
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    7.71 x 0.98 x 5.24 inches
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; Abridged edition (May 15, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 544 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0199535701
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0199535705
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.71 x 0.98 x 5.24 inches
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Karl Marx

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Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, communist, and revolutionary, whose ideas played a significant role in the development of modern communism. Marx summarized his approach in the first line of chapter one of The Communist Manifesto, published in 1848: "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." Marx argued that capitalism, like previous socioeconomic systems, would inevitably produce internal tensions which would lead to its destruction. Just as capitalism replaced feudalism, he believed socialism would, in its turn, replace capitalism, and lead to a stateless, classless society called pure communism. This would emerge after a transitional period called the "dictatorship of the proletariat": a period sometimes referred to as the "workers state" or "workers' democracy". In section one of The Communist Manifesto Marx describes feudalism, capitalism, and the role internal social contradictions play in the historical process: We see then: the means of production and of exchange, on whose foundation the bourgeoisie built itself up, were generated in feudal society. At a certain stage in the development of these means of production and of exchange, the conditions under which feudal society produced and exchanged...the feudal relations of property became no longer compatible with the already developed productive forces; they became so many fetters. They had to be burst asunder; they were burst asunder. Into their place stepped free competition, accompanied by a social and political constitution adapted in it, and the economic and political sway of the bourgeois class. A similar movement is going on before our own eyes.... The productive forces at the disposal of society no longer tend to further the development of the conditions of bourgeois property; on the contrary, they have become too powerful for these conditions, by which they are fettered, and so soon as they overcome these fetters, they bring order into the whole of bourgeois society, endanger the existence of bourgeois property.Marx argued for a systemic understanding of socio-economic change.

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Lucas Mello
5.0 out of 5 stars Great abridged version.
Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2018
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The oxford classics version offers a great over view of Marx's Capital, it features a shorter version of volume 1, with superfluous and esoteric sections removed, although I feel the author could have at least provided a glossary summary of the excluded sections. Nevertheless if you want to understand Marxism this book is a great introduction and solid foundational text. (This version also includes key sections of volume ii and iii, although only a glancery view of a handful of chapters)
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Besides "The Origin of Species" one of the books that transformed the world.
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A Robot Bit Me
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What is the deal with the labor theory of value?
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Yujie W.
4.0 out of 5 stars Wasn't an easy read but worth it!
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To be honest it wasn't an easy read since this is not the usual book that I would choose, so I am glad that I chose the abridged instead of the original copy. I wasn't very familiar with Marxism and I found several of his thoughts jaw dropping especially given the fact that it was written 150 years ago. It made me rethink what I have been taught and practiced. I wouldn't recommend to people who want to criticize his work just because he is considered as communist. Communism or extreme communism has been proved that it doesn't really work throughout history. It might be better to read the book with the perspective of which ideas can be tolerated into capitalism in order to make it more reasonable. However, I didn't like his writing style or his examples which made a good portion of the book tedious. This abridged version did a great job of keeping his writing style but what I really wanted was a more concise without redundancy. But I talked to a person who said that it's his writing style that make the book even more valuable. So I keep it as a personal opinion. If you are reading alone I highly recommend Youtube video of David Harvey 'reading karl marx's Capital with David Harvey'. I probably would have stopped reading chapter one without it. However if somebody rewrite his book in a more concise and with more plain English I would prefer that.
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Phil Webster
5.0 out of 5 stars Understanding Capitalism
Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2011
This edition of "Capital" contains the original English translation of Volume One - and it is an excellent translation which I prefer to the one in the Penguin edition. (I do not understand why a previous reviewer made a comment about needing to speak French or German to read this edition.) The introduction by David McLellan is also quite good, although I think that McLellan is unfair in claiming that Marx was not concerned enough with issues such as gender inequality and ecology.

To many people Marxism is a dirty word because of its association with the bureaucratic tyranny of the Stalinist regimes of Russia, Eastern Europe, China etc. But these regimes had/have nothing to do with genuine Marxism, as anyone who reads this book will see. The so-called "communist" states were actually state capitalist systems controlled by a ruling class of bureaucrats who betrayed the aims of the 1917 Russian Revolution and turned on its head Marx's aim of a democratic workers' state and classless society.

Marx's humanism and democratic instincts shine out throughout this book. There are marvellous indictments of the alienating, exploitive and undemocratic nature of the capitalist system, as well as some remarkably vivid historical sections. But Marx's main aim in this book is not to set out a blueprint for a future socialist society, it is to lay bare the "law of motion" of the capitalist society we live in.

Marx shows that there are two key features of the capitalist system. Firstly, there is the fact that the capitalists make their profits by exploiting the working class. (The working class today includes ordinary white collar workers as well as manual workers.) As Marx writes, "Capital...vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour..."

Secondly, there is the competition between rival capitalists which drives on the exploitation and which leads to the anarchy of the market system, with its booms, slumps and crises, as we are seeing today.

I particularly like how Marx shows that people are alienated under capitalism, in the sense of their work being turned into soulless degradation, and also in the sense of having lost control of their lives to something they themselves have created - capital. "As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand."

"Capital" is not an easy read, and it is best tackled after reading a modern introduction to Marxism. On Marxist economics, I would recommend either Joseph Choonara's "Unravelling Capitalism" or Chris Harman's "Zombie Capitalism". On Marxism as a whole, Alex Callinicos's "The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx" is a brilliant starting point.

Phil Webster.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
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Goes on and on and on ... surprised anybody ever got the end.
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Kirill
5.0 out of 5 stars Basic economy facts.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 17, 2023
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Its all about commodities. And its values for labours. That live in the capitalists world. Very good book its like War and Piece but just about Economy. Worth a look to see the legend at work.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing book
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5.0 out of 5 stars 資本論を安く一冊で読みたい人向け
Reviewed in Japan on March 31, 2012
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マルクスの資本論の英語訳なわけですが、
日本語の書物を探すと、全四巻も出てきて、一冊がかなり高いわけです。
こちらはその四冊の内容を一冊にしていて価格もかなり安いわけです。
日本の出版社だとあまりこういうことはやらないのですが、
海外では有名な書物をこういう安価な価格で売っています。
ただし、内容は英語です。
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5.0 out of 5 stars The history
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5.0 out of 5 stars Pretty difficult to read
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Pretty difficult to read, and a lot of content still that can go... but ultimately refreshing and rewarding, as it gives you a very different take on the world with a logic hard to defeat.
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