Celebrating 150 Years of Karl Marx’s “Capital” in New York City

Frank — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 11:34:21 +0000

Celebrating 150 Years of Karl Marx’s “Capital” in New York City

On September 14, 1867, the Börsenblatt des deutschen Buchhandels informed the public of the publication of “Capital, Volume I: The Process of Production of Capital” by Karl Marx. Exactly 150 years later, on September 14, 2017, the New York office of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung celebrated the anniversary of Marx’s magnum opus.

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von Maria Starzmann

Thu, 12/07/2017 - 12:34

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History in Capital and Capital in History

Lutz — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 14:06:50 +0000

History in Capital and Capital in History

Mexico City - Palacio Nacional. Mural by Diego Rivera Foto: By Wolfgang Sauber (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ CC BY-SA

‘Marx was the best hated and most calumniated man of his time’, Engels remarked in his graveside oration, because he discovered two things that struck at the heart of capitalism. Firstly, it was neither natural nor eternal. It rests on entirely unnatural historical processes forcibly or fraudulently separating the mass of humanity from its means of production, leaving it dependent on employment by the appropriators of those means. Such a contradictory and antagonistic social order had to end.

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von Radhika Desai

Tue, 08/22/2017 - 16:06

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