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
The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx "locate the essential elements of continuity or discontinuity" in Marx's thought and to correct misinterpretations of it. He credited Avineri with "a close and insightful reading of the whole body of the primary sources, aided by a selective and judicious reading of the secondary literature", and described his writing as "learned and at the same time limpid" and his treatment of Marx as "solidly grounded, fair, and enlightening." However, he criticized Avineri for devoting insufficient space to discussing "Das Kapital" and Marx's views on the nature of capitalist society, and for failing to address the work of the philosophers Louis