A classic of early modernism, Capital combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis
to produce a bitter denunciation of mid-Victorian capitalist society. It has also proved to be
the most influential work in social science in the twentieth century; Marx did for social
science what Darwin had done for biology. Millions of readers this century have treated
Capital as a sacred text, subjecting it to as many different interpretations as the Bible itself.
No mere work of dry economics, Marx's great work depicts the unfolding of industrial …

Volume I is one of the most influential documents of modern times, looking at the
relationship between labor and value, the role of money, and the conflict between the
classes. The" forgotten" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of
economics, politics, and history, contains the vital discussion of commodity, the cornerstone
to Marx's theories. The third volume was unfinished at the time of Marx's death in 1883 and
first published with a preface by Frederick Engels in 1894, strove to combine the theories …