--- product_id: 118238016 title: "Capital: Volume I (Das Kapital series Book 1)" price: "€ 37.24" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.hr/products/118238016-capital-volume-i-das-kapital-series-book-1 store_origin: HR region: Croatia --- # Comprehensive economic critique Highlight & note-taking enabled Powerful in-book search Capital: Volume I (Das Kapital series Book 1) **Price:** € 37.24 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 📖 Unlock the blueprint of capitalism—before everyone else does! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Capital: Volume I (Das Kapital series Book 1) - **How much does it cost?** € 37.24 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.hr](https://www.desertcart.hr/products/118238016-capital-volume-i-das-kapital-series-book-1) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Master Marx’s Magnum Opus:** Dive deep into the foundational text that reshaped economic thought and social theory. - • **Seamless Multi-Device Access:** Read effortlessly on Kindle, PC, phone, or tablet—knowledge on your terms, anytime, anywhere. - • **Interactive Reading Experience:** Highlight key insights, bookmark pivotal passages, and take notes to personalize your study. - • **Unlock Complex Ideas with Ease:** Use the built-in search to quickly navigate Marx’s dense analysis and revisit critical concepts. - • **Join a Legacy of Thought Leaders:** Be part of a global community engaging with one of history’s most influential economic texts. ## Overview Capital: Volume I (Das Kapital series Book 1) by Karl Marx is a rigorous, world-class scholarly critique of political economy, available as a Kindle e-book. It offers advanced reading tools like highlighting, note-taking, and search, enabling a deep, interactive engagement with Marx’s groundbreaking analysis of capitalist production. Ideal for intellectually curious professionals seeking to understand the economic forces shaping our world. ## Description 'A groundbreaking work of economic analysis. It is also a literary masterpice' Francis Wheen, Guardian One of the most notorious and influential works of modern times, Capital is an incisive critique of private property and the social relations it generates. Living in exile in England, where this work was largely written, Marx drew on a wide-ranging knowledge of its society to support his analysis. Arguing that capitalism would cause an ever-increasing division in wealth and welfare, he predicted its abolition and replacement by a system with common ownership of the means of production. Capital rapidly acquired readership throughout the world, to become a work described by Marx's collaborator Friedrich Engels as 'the Bible of the working class'. Translated by BEN FOWKES with an Introduction by ERNEST MANDEL Review: Not a polemic but a keeper nonetheless - There is an enormous collection of valuable information in volume 1 of Marx's Capital. Volume 1, moreover, serves very effectively as the first of three volumes in which Marx gives truly compelling evidence of his genius -- how else could one author come to terms with this massive account of the reality of capitalist production as Marx uniquely understands it? While it soon becomes abundantly clear that Marx was a master prose stylist, there is no mistaking the fact that he did not write for the ease and convenience of his readers. I can't imagine taking the full measure of this volume, much less the two volumes which follow, without the sustained help of explanatory material such as that provided by David Harvey, a veteran American academician who takes Marx very seriously indeed. Without question, even for exceptionally well informed and intellectually capable readers, this book is a bear. If you invest the substantial amount of time and prodigious effort needed to master it, you will definitely come to understand why Marxists become Marxists, and you may very well become one yourself. At the very least, you'll see the world differently, and you'll have a firmer grasp on the character of our contemporary world, not just its economic make-up, but in a socially expansive way. It's hard to imagine anyone reading the book carefully and with a modicum of understanding and coming away with the judgment that this is merely an ideologically motivated, long-winded exercise in willful self-deception and the deception of others. If you encounter someone who characterized Marx as a willfully wrong-headed ideologue, you may safely assume that you're dealing with someone who has not read Capital. Capital Volume 1 is, in fact, a richly informative and very difficult piece of world-class research. I imagine that most readers who take its full measure will come back to it again and again. I can't imagine doing justice to Capital Volume 1 without putting forth the kind of effort that makes for the creation of a life-long connection. Marx himself claims to have sacrificed his health, happiness, and family to writing the book. This has the pathetic sound of self-pitying exaggeration. But given what I know of Marx and the necessarily prodigious demands of the kind of work he produced, I'm sure he's being dispassionately truthful. You may be disappointed to find that Capital is much less polemical than it is rigorously analytical. That was my first response. For the long term, however, I realized the book is a keeper, and I acknowledged that I'd have to look elsewhere for a call-to-arms that is not also embedded in massive learning. It's true, of course that Marx was an active professional revolutionary, but he was also a world-class scholar with a prodigiously cultivated mind. Reading Marx makes me want to spend a year or two in the library of the British Museum, where Marx did his best scholarship. Marx and Charles Darwin exchanged fairly frequent correspondence. Everyone knows that Darwin transformed our understanding of the world and our place in it. Much the same is true of Marx's contribution to human knowledge. It's interesting to acknowledge that social and religious conservatism were barriers to the rightful dissemination of both. That Marx maintained an ongoing relationship with others of undeniable genius, such as Darwin, bespeaks Marx's own intellectual prowess and reflects his status as a wonderfully original thinker. In his own authentic way, Marx was at least as much a brilliant scientist as Darwin. Darwin changed the way we thought about ourselves, but Marx changed the way we live. Review: To those who wish to understand Marx & Capitalism in general. - This is a dense book that you must read as best as you can. The first volume contains basic block understand how capitalism comes to be. This book, however, can be complex enough to be tiresome as it contains a lot of information. If you get tired or you're at the point that you do not understand what you're reading, then stop and take a rest from reading. Missing information can be confusing to the continuous reading of this book, and to the next two volumes of The Capital. Another important aspect of this book is that this is not a one-read only to understand entirely. You might have to return to this book to completely understand what Marx is trying to present. The good thing about this book is that it achieves to be objective. It is not a book to lift one up into become a revolutionary, like some propaganda tries to claim. This book is truly trying to understand the birth, development and potential effects of capitalism. However, by understanding capitalism, one can understand and even reach Marx's conclusion of other books that Engels and Marx himself reach. ## Features - Highlight, take notes, and search in the book ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #128,959 in Kindle Store ( See Top 100 in Kindle Store ) #26 in Economic Theory (Kindle Store) #31 in Communism & Socialism (Kindle Store) #50 in Free Enterprise & Capitalism | ## Images ![Capital: Volume I (Das Kapital series Book 1) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81W+bGhhcpL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Not a polemic but a keeper nonetheless *by N***L on October 1, 2017* There is an enormous collection of valuable information in volume 1 of Marx's Capital. Volume 1, moreover, serves very effectively as the first of three volumes in which Marx gives truly compelling evidence of his genius -- how else could one author come to terms with this massive account of the reality of capitalist production as Marx uniquely understands it? While it soon becomes abundantly clear that Marx was a master prose stylist, there is no mistaking the fact that he did not write for the ease and convenience of his readers. I can't imagine taking the full measure of this volume, much less the two volumes which follow, without the sustained help of explanatory material such as that provided by David Harvey, a veteran American academician who takes Marx very seriously indeed. Without question, even for exceptionally well informed and intellectually capable readers, this book is a bear. If you invest the substantial amount of time and prodigious effort needed to master it, you will definitely come to understand why Marxists become Marxists, and you may very well become one yourself. At the very least, you'll see the world differently, and you'll have a firmer grasp on the character of our contemporary world, not just its economic make-up, but in a socially expansive way. It's hard to imagine anyone reading the book carefully and with a modicum of understanding and coming away with the judgment that this is merely an ideologically motivated, long-winded exercise in willful self-deception and the deception of others. If you encounter someone who characterized Marx as a willfully wrong-headed ideologue, you may safely assume that you're dealing with someone who has not read Capital. Capital Volume 1 is, in fact, a richly informative and very difficult piece of world-class research. I imagine that most readers who take its full measure will come back to it again and again. I can't imagine doing justice to Capital Volume 1 without putting forth the kind of effort that makes for the creation of a life-long connection. Marx himself claims to have sacrificed his health, happiness, and family to writing the book. This has the pathetic sound of self-pitying exaggeration. But given what I know of Marx and the necessarily prodigious demands of the kind of work he produced, I'm sure he's being dispassionately truthful. You may be disappointed to find that Capital is much less polemical than it is rigorously analytical. That was my first response. For the long term, however, I realized the book is a keeper, and I acknowledged that I'd have to look elsewhere for a call-to-arms that is not also embedded in massive learning. It's true, of course that Marx was an active professional revolutionary, but he was also a world-class scholar with a prodigiously cultivated mind. Reading Marx makes me want to spend a year or two in the library of the British Museum, where Marx did his best scholarship. Marx and Charles Darwin exchanged fairly frequent correspondence. Everyone knows that Darwin transformed our understanding of the world and our place in it. Much the same is true of Marx's contribution to human knowledge. It's interesting to acknowledge that social and religious conservatism were barriers to the rightful dissemination of both. That Marx maintained an ongoing relationship with others of undeniable genius, such as Darwin, bespeaks Marx's own intellectual prowess and reflects his status as a wonderfully original thinker. In his own authentic way, Marx was at least as much a brilliant scientist as Darwin. Darwin changed the way we thought about ourselves, but Marx changed the way we live. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ To those who wish to understand Marx & Capitalism in general. *by J***O on February 7, 2021* This is a dense book that you must read as best as you can. The first volume contains basic block understand how capitalism comes to be. This book, however, can be complex enough to be tiresome as it contains a lot of information. If you get tired or you're at the point that you do not understand what you're reading, then stop and take a rest from reading. Missing information can be confusing to the continuous reading of this book, and to the next two volumes of The Capital. Another important aspect of this book is that this is not a one-read only to understand entirely. You might have to return to this book to completely understand what Marx is trying to present. The good thing about this book is that it achieves to be objective. It is not a book to lift one up into become a revolutionary, like some propaganda tries to claim. This book is truly trying to understand the birth, development and potential effects of capitalism. However, by understanding capitalism, one can understand and even reach Marx's conclusion of other books that Engels and Marx himself reach. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ gift *by B***O on January 16, 2026* I don't know what this book is about. 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