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
Biographies of Karl Marx The work was republished as Karl Marx: A Biography in 1995. Marx Without Myth: A Chronological Study of his Life and Work by Maximilien Rubel Karl Marx is a 2010 biography by journalist Francis Wheen. Karl Marx: A Nineteenth Century Life is a 2013 biography of Karl Marx by Jonathan Sperber. Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion is a 2016 biography of Karl Marx by British historian Gareth Stedman-Jones. Marx: The Man and His Message is a biography by Keir Hardie. Karl Marx. A Brief Biographical Sketch With an Exposition of Marxism. Written: 1914 1938: Karl Marx, London: Chapman & Hall