Capital

Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1

De: Karl Marx, Paul North - editor, Wendy Brown - foreword, Paul Reitter, Paul Reitter - translator

Narrado por: Simon Vance

This audiobook narrated by Simon Vance presents a major new translation of the explosive book that transformed our world

Karl Marx (1818-1883) was living in exile in England when he embarked on an ambitious, multivolume critique of the capitalist system of production. Though only the first volume saw publication in Marx's lifetime, it would become one of the most consequential books in history. This magnificent new edition of Capital is a translation of Marx for the twenty-first century. It is the first translation into English to be based on the last German edition revised by Marx himself, the only version that can be called authoritative, and it features extensive commentary and annotations by Paul North and Paul Reitter that draw on the latest scholarship and provide invaluable perspective on the book and its complicated legacy. At once precise and boldly understandable, this translation captures the momentous scale and sweep of Marx's thought while recovering the elegance and humor of the original source.

For Marx, our global economic system is relentlessly driven by "value"—to produce it, capture it, trade it, and most of all, to increase it. Lifespans are shortened under the demand for ever-greater value. Days are lengthened, work is intensified, and the division of labor deepens until it leaves two classes, owners and workers, in constant struggle for life and livelihood. In Capital, Marx reveals how value came to tyrannize our world, and how the history of capital is a chronicle of bloodshed, colonization, and enslavement.

With a foreword by Wendy Brown and an afterword by William Clare Roberts, this is a critical edition of Capital for our time, one that faithfully preserves the vitality and directness of Marx's German prose and renders his ideas newly relevant to modern audiences.

©2024 Karl Marx (P)2024 Princeton University Press

Reseñas de la Crítica

"No previous English version of 'Capital' has featured such an erudite critical apparatus or such an exacting translation. It's a remarkable achievement that forces readers to attend to the philosophical subtleties of Marx's argument."—James Miller, New York Times Book Review (James Miller)

"In a world that burns more quickly by the day—after centuries of industrial rapacity, and with ever-increasing flares of fascism—a new English translation of Marx, and the first to be based on his final revision of this foundational critique of capitalism, is just what the people ordered."—The Millions

"The Reitter translation of Capital will likely be the English speaking world's access text to Marx for at least the next fifty years, as the Fowkes was before it. . . . Reitter's new translation continues the life of Capital, creating something new while faithfully delivering an accurate text."—M. P. Ross, Applied Political Theory (M. P. Ross)

Slight echoey sssy sibilance - a mild strain to listen to as a result - other books have crisper sound. Maddening.

Great book - sadly suboptimal sound quality makes this text doubly challenging to absorb. It’s not just the reader, it’s the audio acoustic. Maddening.