Capital: Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy

Karl Marx

Feb 2023 · SNR Audio · Narrated by Malk Williams

About this audiobook

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'.

This audiobook is expertly read by Audie award-winning narrator, Malk Williams, and translated by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling.

Karl Marx was a German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, communist, and revolutionary, whose ideas played a significant role in the development of modern communism. Born in Trier, Germany, Marx Studied law and philosophy at University. Due to his political writings, he was forced to live in exile in London, where he continued to develop his thought in collaboration with German thinker Friedrich Engels and publish his writings. His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto and the three-volume Das Kapital (1867-1883). Marx's political and philosophical thought had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic and political history

Ratings and reviews

Writing a review to counter these freaks on here that haven't read the book. Capital is merely a philosophical critique of Capitalism. This is what Marx is ultimately famous for, not Communism. In philosophy, a critique is a very complex, highly studied, thorough deconstruction of a specific topic. The volumes of Capital are that for Capitalism. The other reviews on this book were made by reactionary, illiterate losers that don't even have an attention span to listen to the book. Read it, understand it, form your own opinions. Don't listen to morons that tell you to avoid subject matter because the wealthy told them that is what they should think.

Marx provides thorough explanation, a sense of humor, flowery literary references and sarcasm in this invaluable critique of the capitalism of his day - a critique still relevant as long as capitalism exists as a means for the owning class to extract surplus value from those who labor. Very good, clear narration by Malk Williams, with a good pace and engagingly emoted.