Book Review from the July 1991 issue of the Socialist Standard
Capital, Volume 1. By Karl Marx, translated by Ben Fowkes. Penguin Classic. £10.99.
Penguins have just republished this modern translation that they first brought out in 1976 and which has since become the standard modern one to quote from. Ernest Mandcl, the Trotskyist leader, who even today still thinks that Marx’s theory of capitalism does not apply to Russia was of course a most unsuitable choice to write a 70-page introduction, even if he does provide some interesting historical material on the background to Marx’s major work.
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