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Karl Marx's 'Capital': A Guide to Volumes I–III

Kenneth Smith author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Anthem Press

Published:31st Mar '21

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A comprehensive and user-friendly guide to all three volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital, with advice on further reading and points for further discussion.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to all three volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital, with advice on further reading and points for further discussion.

This guide uniquely presents the three volumes of Capital in a different order of reading to that in which they were published, placing them instead in the order that Marx himself sometimes recommended as a more user-friendly way of reading. Dr Smith also argues that, for most of the twentieth century, the full development of the capitalist mode of production (CMP) has been undermined by the existence of a non-capitalist ‘third world’, which has caused the CMP to take on the form of what Marx called a highly developed mercantile system, rather than one characterized by an uninterrupted circuit of industrial capital of the kind he expected would develop.

‘Marx’s work continues to be of unrivalled analytic significance for making sense of the trials and tribulations of the global capitalist economy. The timely publication of Ken Smith’s excellent guide to Marx’s “Capital” will prove to be of great value to researchers, teachers and students striving to make sense of the state we are in.’ —Barry Smart, Professor of Sociology, University of Portsmouth

ISBN: 9781839980008

Dimensions: 229mm x 153mm x 26mm

Weight: 454g

210 pages

Second Edition