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
Karl Marx-Hof name back in 1945. The heavy artillery damage to Karl-Marx-Hof was repaired in the 1950s. It has been used as a filming location for some movies, most notably "The Night Porter". The building was refurbished between 1989 and 1992. Karl Marx-Hof Karl-Marx-Hof (English: "Karl Marx Court") is one of the best-known "Gemeindebauten" (English: "municipal tenement complexes") in Vienna, situated in Heiligenstadt, a neighbourhood of the 19th district of Vienna, Döbling. At over a kilometre in length () and spanning four Straßenbahn (tram) stops, Karl-Marx-Hof is the longest single residential building in the world. Karl-Marx-Hof is built on land that, until