Das Kapital expanded English translation of the wildly successful 2008 Japanese pocket version "Das Kapital" Manga de Dokuha. The foreign editions of "Capital. Critique of Political Economy" (1867) by Karl Marx include a Russian translation by the revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876). Eventually Marx's work was translated into all major languages. The English translation by Samuel Moore and Marx's son-in-law Edward Aveling of book 1, overseen by Engels, was published in 1887 as "Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production" by Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, & Co. and reissued in the 1970s by Progress Publishers in Moscow while a more recent English translation was
Francis Wheen journalism. Wheen is the author of several books, including a biography of Karl Marx which won the Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1999, and has been translated into twenty languages. He followed the biography of Karl Marx with a "biography" of "Das Kapital", which follows the creation and publication of the first volume of Marx's major work as well as other incomplete volumes. Wheen had a column in "The Guardian" for several years. He writes for "Private Eye" and is currently the magazine's deputy editor. His collected journalism, "Hoo-hahs and Passing Frenzies", won him the Orwell Prize in 2003. He has