Socialism: Utopian and Scientific of thousands of copies. Throughout the decade of the 1860s, Karl Marx, close personal friend and political associate of Friedrich Engels, dedicated himself to the study of economics, culminating in the publication of the first volume of "Das Kapital" in 1867. Marx's lengthy and ponderous volume was extremely difficult for the average to penetrate, however, leading Engels to suggest to Marx in a letter of September 16, 1868 that a short popularized version of "Das Kapital" for a working class audience was urgently needed. "If it is not written, some Moses or other will come along and do it and
Studies on Marx and Hegel Studies on Marx and Hegel Studies on Marx and Hegel () is a 1955 book about Karl Marx and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel by the French philosopher Jean Hyppolite. It has received praise from commentators, and has been credited with showing Hegel's anticipation of existentialism. Hyppolite provides assessments of Hegel's "The Phenomenology of Spirit" (1807), including the significance of Hegel's discussion in that work of the French Revolution. He also assesses Hegel's "Science of Logic", Marx's "Das Kapital" (1867–1883), and Marx's critique of Hegel's "Elements of the Philosophy of Right" (1820), and discusses György Lukács's "The Young Hegel" (1938). "Studies