What do you say....

[seen_che]

How did Marx book Das Kapital change the world ? :marx: :marx: :marx:

[bolshevik butcher]

It changed the world because such a book had ever been writen before. However I'd say that the communist manifesto changed the world more, as it is the call to arms.

[RedStarOverChina]

Communist manifesto certainly did boost up the revolutionary spirit. But wht is revolutionary spirit without the proper backing in theory?

Das Kapital, i would say, is the most scientific book of its time(and perhaps it still is even today). That pretty much sums up everything.

[Intifada]

Communist manifesto certainly did boost up the revolutionary spirit. But wht is revolutionary spirit without the proper backing in theory?


To the workers of the world, the theory did not have to be proven.

They lived in the oppression that Marx wrote about.

"Das Kapital" was indeed a very scientific book, which validated what Marx and other Communists were arguing, but the workers did not have to read a book, which they probably would not have understood anyway, to become conscious of the common struggle which all of the Proletariat faced.

[SpeCtrE]

Originally posted by [email protected] 23 2005, 12:00 AM
to the workers of the world, the theory did not have to be proven.
"Das Kapital" was indeed a very scientific book, which validated what Marx and other Communists were arguing, but the workers did not have to read a book, which they probably would not have understood anyway, to become conscious of the common struggle which all of the Proletariat faced.
Yes. I think Das Kapital was the foremost, thoroughly researched book of its time to address the question that needed to be answered, but wasn't being answered because of the opressing church and reactionary factors.

But , giving all the credit to that book doesn't seem fair. As Intifada said, the workers wouldn't have understood the book even if they read it.