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
Muppala Ranganayakamma the "Marx Capital parichayam", an introduction to Marx's "Das Kapital" in 3 volumes. The first volume was published in 1978 and there were no Telugu translations of "Das Kapital" available at that time. She wrote a three-volume novel "Janaki Vimukti" (meaning ""Emanicipation of Janaki""), arguing that Marxism is the correct path to gender equality. The most outstanding feature of Ranganayakamma's writings is that she writes in the most lucid manner, and even her opponents acknowledge this fact. Her readers and friends maintain a website (www.ranganayakamma.org) hosting details of her works. She won the Andhra Pradesh Government Sahitya Akademi Award for