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
The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx is a 1968 book about the philosopher Karl Marx by the political scientist Shlomo Avineri. Commentators have praised the book, which has become a classic. Avineri discusses the work of the philosopher Karl Marx, writing that he aims to do so without political bias and to take account of the rediscovery of early works by Marx, such as the "Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right", "The German Ideology", the "Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844", and the "Grundrisse". He argues that previous discussions of