Das Kapital order, was held by Marx and Engels to—as a result of various contradictions in the capitalist mode of production—result in crises whose resolution necessitates the emergence of an entirely new mode of production as the culmination of the same historical dialectic that led to the emergence of capitalism from prior forms. The purpose of "Das Kapital" (1867) was a scientific foundation for the politics of the modern labour movement. The analyses were meant "to bring a science, by criticism, to the point where it can be dialectically represented" and so "reveal the law of motion of modern society" to describe
Biographies of Karl Marx The work was republished as Karl Marx: A Biography in 1995. Marx Without Myth: A Chronological Study of his Life and Work by Maximilien Rubel Karl Marx is a 2010 biography by journalist Francis Wheen. Karl Marx: A Nineteenth Century Life is a 2013 biography of Karl Marx by Jonathan Sperber. Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion is a 2016 biography of Karl Marx by British historian Gareth Stedman-Jones. Marx: The Man and His Message is a biography by Keir Hardie. Karl Marx. A Brief Biographical Sketch With an Exposition of Marxism. Written: 1914 1938: Karl Marx, London: Chapman & Hall