This new edition of C. J. Arthur's student edition of Marx's most famous text is re-issued for Marx's 200th birthday in May 2018. Marx's Capital: A Student Edition makes one of the most influential texts of the modern era open and accessible to readers as never before. Karl Marx's Capital was first published in 1867, since when it has become the classic text of Marxism for professional economists, social scientists, philosophers, students, and political activists alike. But the sheer extent of Marx's great work of political economy has often daunted readers, and hampered their understanding of his ideas. Harold Wilson once jokingly claimed he gave up when he came across a two-page footnote on the first page. C.J. Arthur, whose student edition of The German Ideology by Marx and Engels has long proved popular, has substantially edited and abridged Marx's monumental work. His efforts make this book, one of the most influential texts of the modern era, open and accessible to readers as never before.

About the Author
C. J. Arthur taught Philosophy for many years at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Dialectics of Labour: Marx and his Relation to Hegel (1986) and The New Dialectic and Marx's Capital (2002). He edited and introduced the following: Engels Today: A Centenary Appreciation (1996); Pashukanis, E. B., Law and Marxism (1978); and Marx, K. and F. Engels, The German Ideology (1970).

Reviews
`Whatever the state of current politics, Karl Marx remains one of the great thinkers of the modern world. Chris Arthur has solved the problem of slimming down Capital, without tearing the fabric of Marx's argument or losing the flavour of his style, with exceptional success. All students will have reason to thank him.' - E.J. Hobsbawm



Book Information
ISBN 9781912064847
Author C. J. Arthur
Format Paperback
Page Count 384
Imprint Lawrence & Wishart Ltd
Publisher Lawrence & Wishart Ltd