Das Kapital expanded English translation of the wildly successful 2008 Japanese pocket version "Das Kapital" Manga de Dokuha. The foreign editions of "Capital. Critique of Political Economy" (1867) by Karl Marx include a Russian translation by the revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876). Eventually Marx's work was translated into all major languages. The English translation by Samuel Moore and Marx's son-in-law Edward Aveling of book 1, overseen by Engels, was published in 1887 as "Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production" by Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, & Co. and reissued in the 1970s by Progress Publishers in Moscow while a more recent English translation was
Capitalism and of the wealth owned by the bourgeoisie. This interpretation emphasises that capital ownership, predicated on command over labor, is a social relation: the growth of capital implies the growth of the working class (a "law of accumulation"). In the first volume of "Das Kapital", Marx had illustrated this idea with reference to Edward Gibbon Wakefield's theory of colonisation: In the third volume of "Das Kapital", Marx refers to the "fetishism of capital" reaching its highest point with interest-bearing capital because now capital seems to grow of its own accord without anybody doing anything: Wage labour refers to the sale