Marx's Das Kapital: A Biography (Books That Changed the World)
Narrator Simon Vance

In this brilliant book, Francis Wheen, the author of the most successful biography of Karl Marx,
tells the story of Das Kapital and Marx's 20-year struggle to complete his unfinished masterpiece.
Born in a two-room flat in London's Soho amid political squabbles and personal tragedy, the first
volume of Das Kapital was published in 1867 to muted praise.

But after Marx's death, the book went on to influence thinkers, writers, and revolutionaries, from
George Bernard Shaw to V. I. Lenin, changing the direction of 20th-century history.Wheen shows that,
far from being a dry economic treatise, Das Kapital is like a vast Gothic novel whose heroes are
enslaved by the monster they created: capitalism. Furthermore, Wheen argues, as long as capitalism
endures, Das Kapital demands to be read and understood.

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