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
Karl Marx Library with Marx's alleged transgressions with the censorship as editor of the two Rhenish newspapers with which he was associated. Padover's fifth topical volume of the Karl Marx Library, "On Religion," drew significant academic attention beyond the more typical scholarly province of intellectual history and the history of the labor movement. Writing in the "Catholic Historical Review," Joseph O'Malley of Marquette University observed that "Marx's idea of religion, as shown in these excerpts, remained one and fixed throughout his adult life," and that religion to Marx "at best provides some individuals the diversion of an illusory solace and at worst acts