• Marx's Das Kapital

  • A Biography: Books That Changed the World
  • By: Francis Wheen
  • Narrated by: Simon Vance
  • Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
  • 3.7 out of 5 stars (83 ratings)

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Marx's Das Kapital

By: Francis Wheen
Narrated by: Simon Vance
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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.

©2006 Francis Wheen (P)2007 Tantor

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misleading book title

it's not the actual book of Das Kapital, was a total waste of money, hope no one else will fall for it again
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Could've been better....

Marx is a genius and it's a shame his brilliant ideas never got into the hands of the right people or culture for that matter. However, this particular audio book is a tad on the boring side and the narration certainly didn't help any.

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Very misleading title

I purchased it with the impression I that it will be the original Das Kapital not the history of making it

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Not the real book

I’ve no idea why this was titled the way it was but this is not actually Marx’s book.

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Misleading title

Like many people, thought it was das kapital. So clearly disappointed. Would pay more attention to the title and book reviews in the future.

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Wonderful!

Honestly, I bought this book because I thought it was Das Kapital, but 5 minutes in with the discussion of Balzac’s The Unknown Masterpiece, I was hooked! I probably didn’t give the title another thought when I bought it because once I saw Simon Vance narrated it I didn’t look any further!

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given the dialectic suggestion

that all (((φ))) it was written dialectically becoming the dictionary (((f))) default for the meaning of it at every possible f(((θπ)))
there might be more gnomoi drawn as radii from the point of the point becoming the point putter onner that it is more pointedly round in the sharpest sense of fashion as passion pushes passion beyond becoming to beanzaza
as 3000 annus henus the platonists similarly cite in ink the same failure of our father zaza to read any book other than the babble in group gnomonic splashonzaza where the meaning of the wordz mean admixture might mean something becoming more than be some theory of ζ being perpetually proven wrong by the apparent sameness of it with ξ on wednesdays

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Ironic

Bought this as a first step to overcoming capitalism. Turns out its not Das Kapital, but a book about Das Kapital. Well played, Amazon.

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