Description
Imagine Karl Marx as a cartoonist, ready to set the record straight about his much maligned classic, Das Kapital. Impossibly difficult? Not in the least. Hopelessly outdated? Far from it. Though first published in 1867, Capital remains keenly relevant. Society continues to run on investment and profit, labor and technology. And predictions that once might have seemed rash--global economic crisis, societies nearing bankruptcy--are now simply facts. Capital remains the fullest attempt to explain these facts, and Marx's Capital Illustrated brings this attempt to vibrant life, proceeding all the way from the ABCs to the pertinence of Marx's theory of crisis for today's global woes.
Fresh, funny, and copiously illustrated, this book is for everyone who wants better insight into Capital and capitalism. Readers of Marx, unite! You have found your starting point.
Author: David Smith
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 07/04/2014
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9781642593211
ISBN10: 1642593214
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
- Social Science | Social Classes & Economic Disparity
- Comics & Graphic Novels | Nonfiction | General
About the Author
David Smith is the editor of a forthcoming English-language volume of Marx's Notes on Global Capitalism and Non-Western Culture for Yale University Press. His publications include articles in many scholarly journals, including Sociological Theory, Rethinking Marxism, The American Psychologist, and Current Perspectives in Social Theory.