Das Kapital

Das Kapital

It would be almost impossible to exaggerate the influence Karl Marx has had upon the world in the last 150 years. Marx was an influential historian, journalist and economist who is widely considered one of the first social scientists, but he is best remembered for advocating socialism, particularly the brand that would take his name. As the father of Marxism, Marx predicted that capitalistic societies, ruled by a â€œdictatorship of the bourgeoiseâ€, would eventually give way via class struggles to a â€œdictatorship of the proletariatâ€, and eventually to a more stateless form of communism.Â

Marx certainly wasnâ€™t the first to espouse these kinds of political views, but nobody before or since had as much influence in actually bringing about the implementation of their ideas. Working with Friedrich Engels and others, Marx went about authoring a series of works, most notably The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (1867-1894), championing his ideas. While Marx laid out the ideological groundwork, many put it into action, leading to the formation of socialist powers in the Soviet Union and China during the first half of the 20th century. Marxâ€™s writings and philosophy had an impact on the social sciences and economic theories, but one of his biographers could comfortably and accurately assert that the political history of the 20th century was â€œMarxâ€™s legacyâ€. Whether fairly or not, in the West Marx has bcome inextricably linked with some of the totalitarian excesses of the regimes that claimed to espouse his ideology, and for that reason Marx is often associated with some of the negative connotations that come with the Soviets. Nevertheless, few would deny the very decisive impact Marxism had on the global landscape, and the ramifications continue to have a political influence today.

Country	USA
Author	Karl Marx
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781518310409
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Wallachia Publishers
Manufacturer	Wallachia Publishers
NumberOfPages	608
PublicationDate	2015-11-25
Publisher	Wallachia Publishers
ReleaseDate	2015-11-25
Studio	Wallachia Publishers

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