No other book is so thorough in its analysis of the rules of the market when it comes to working processes and creation of value – hence it is an analysis of the product 'man', too: While turbo-capitalism flourishes in the People’s Republic of China, while Fidel Castro makes a tired appearance in his Adidas-training-clothes in front of international cameras, self-organized Marx reading circles gather again in Western Europe, and the house where he was born in Trier is pleased about the visitors’ influx and the fact that the Karl-Marx-red-wine sells so well.įor 'DAS KAPITAL' Haug/Wetzel were in search of people to whom the First Part of Karl Marx’ unifinished opus magnum meant something, for whichever reason. No other book has influenced economic theory and political reality to the same extent as Marx’ opus magnum of scientific socialism. With this book at hand, it’s not at all about how the directors read it, but about those people wo have actually read it at all, not so much about what is inside it, but where in the society it can be found, whoever uses and knows it, no matter which political affiliation and economic practice. It’s neither about a swan song, nor about pure theory on stage. Helgard Haug and Daniel Wetzel consider it as a dramatic text, whose mysteries can only be unlocked with the help of eight people who have lived with, in and for this work. There are 751 pages between the first and the last sentence – between: 'The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as ?an immense accumulation of commodities,? its unit being a single commodity.' – and: 'The only thing that interests us is the secret discovered in the new world by the Political Economy of the old world, and proclaimed on the housetops: that the capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private property in other words, the expropriation of the labourer.'īut what is written in-between? Who has read it? How often, under which circumstances and why?The great analysis of Karl Marx occupies a prominent place among the canon of such books that are familiar to everyone, but which have been really read only by few. Karl Marx: Capital, Volume One By Helgard Haug / Daniel Wetzel Any further use of the photos, for example for illustration of reviews, shall be subject to payment of a fee. The use of the photo is only free of charge in the context of the announcement of performances and with denomination of the author.

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