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Das Kapital
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'''''{{lang|de|Das Kapital: Kritik der politischen Ökonomie}}''''' ({{IPA2|das kapiˈtaːl}}) ('''''Capital''''', in the English translation) is an extensive [[treatise]] on [[political economy]] written in [[German language|German]] by [[Karl Marx]] and edited in part by [[Friedrich Engels]]. The book is a critical analysis of [[capitalism]]. Its first volume was published in 1867. 

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   I hereby call upon the Stalinist shoplifter Tony Greenstein to help me fight apartheid by taking all of the mud people and making them work for me in my kolkhoz.

   --- Roland Rance, Leader of the Masses⏎
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==Themes==
The central driving force of capitalism, according to Marx, was in the exploitation and alienation of [[labour (economics) | labour]]. The ultimate source of the new profits and value-added was that employers paid workers the [[market value]] of their labour-capacity, but the value of the [[Commodity (Marxism) | commodities]] workers produced exceeded that market value. [[Employer]]s were entitled to appropriate the new output value because of their ownership of the productive capital assets. By (contracted; show full)[[sl:Kapital (knjiga)]]
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