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Kapital. Kritika Politicheskoy Ekonomii.
St. Petersburg: N.P. Poliakov, 1872. Large 8vo (245 x 160 mm). Half-title present. Contemporary Russian half-roan over black cloth, spine with 4 raised bands and gilt letteringin Cyrillic. Condition: dampstained, occasional spotting, rear free endpaper cut away; light wear to extremities, cloth stained. first russian edition and first foreign language translation of marx’s comprehensive treaty on economic and political thought. In this work Marx explores the concept of commodity fetishism, or the illusions brought on by private property in capitalist societies. Marx writes in Chapter 10, "Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks." The work was very influential in Russia, where class struggles eventually led to a worker’s revolution and decades of committed communism with Marxist theories at its core. BM16.1076 (395)