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    Wage-Labour and Capital
    Wage-Labour and Capital
    Wage-Labour and Capital
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    Wage-Labour and Capital

    Written by Karl Marx

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    Orignally written as a series of newspaper articles in 1847, Wage-Labour and Capital was intended to give an overview of Marx’s central threories regarding the economic relationships between workers and capitalists. These theories outlined include the Marxian form of the Labour Theory of Value, which distinguishes “labour” from “labour-power”, and the Theory of Concentration of Capital, which states that capitalism tends towards the creation of monopolies and the disenfranchisement of the middle and working classes. These theories were later elaborated in Volume 1 of Capital, published in 1867.

    This edition of Wage-Labour and Capital, published in 1891, was edited and translated by Friedrich Engels, and remains one of the most widely read of Marx’s works. (Description by Carl Manchester).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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    Karl Marx

    Described as one of the most influential figures in human history, Karl Marx was a German philosopher and economist who wrote extensively on the benefits of socialism and the flaws of free-market capitalism. His most notable works, Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto (the latter of which was co-authored by his collaborator Friedrich Engels), have since become two of history’s most important political and economic works. Marxism—the term that has come to define the philosophical school of thought encompassing Marx’s ideas about society, politics and economics—was the foundation for the socialist movements of the twentieth century, including Leninism, Stalinism, Trotskyism, and Maoism. Despite the negative reputation associated with some of these movements and with Communism in general, Marx’s view of a classless socialist society was a utopian one which did not include the possibility of dictatorship. Greatly influenced by the philosopher G. W. F. Hegel, Marx wrote in radical newspapers from his young adulthood, and can also be credited with founding the philosophy of dialectical materialism. Marx died in London in 1883 at the age of 64.

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    • 5/5
      Amazing how the same falises were uttered by the capitalists in 1848 as today. More amazing is people still believe it, though Marx proved them wrong 174 years ago!
    • 3/5
      Didn’t really get too much out of it maybe I need to listen again.
    • 5/5
      The guy reading has a nice voice and unlike some other Librivox I have struggled with, it was recorded well. Oh, and this is very relevant material if you want to know why the minimum wage stagnates among other things.