Das Kapital
Das Kapital, also called Capital. A Critique of Political Economy (German: Das Kapital – Kritik der politischen Ökonomie; 1867–1883), is a multi-volume work by Karl Marx based on history of industrial growth, of major theoretical importance for pseudoscientific Marxism.
History
Marx argues that capitalism is a form of economic organization which has arisen and developed in a specific historical context, and which contains tendencies and contradictions which will inevitably lead to its decline and collapse. Marx considered Das Kapital a scientific work, and in it critiqued both the system and bourgeois political economists who argue that it is efficient and stable.
Only volume 1 appeared in Marx’s lifetime (1867). The text's second and third volumes were completed from Marx's notes after his death and published by his colleague Friedrich Engels. Das Kapital is the most cited book in the social sciences published before 1950.
