About the book
Karl Marx wrote most of Capital while living in exile in England, and he drew on a wide knowledge of English society to build a critique of private property and of the social relations that grow out of it. He argues that capitalism will drive an ever wider split in wealth and welfare, and he predicts that it will be abolished and replaced by a system in which the means of production are owned in common. The work quickly found readers among leaders of social democratic parties, above all in Germany and Russia, and later around the world. Friedrich Engels, Marx's friend and collaborator, described it as the Bible of the working class.
Liam Martin, co-founder and CMO of Time Doctor and Staff.com, said it had a huge impact on him: he rejects Marx's view that capitalism is bad, but read the book critically as a framework for how capitalism works and how to operate within it.
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Liam Martin (Co-founder & CMO/Time Doctor & Staff.com)
Max Weber Protestant Ethic, and Karl Marx's Capital had a huge impact on me. If you read Marx with a critical critique you can see that he's laid out a fantastic framework on how capitalism works, I do disagree with his core premise (capitalism being bad) so I took it as a great way to understand how I could operate inside of a capitalist economy. Weber on the other hand shows you exactly how to get ahead in the world and was critical to me understanding how we reward value creators in western society.
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