Das Kapital

Why does capitalism seem so natural and inevitable when it's actually a recent historical development? Marx's 'Das Kapital', one of history's most influential economic texts, presents a revolutionary philosophical framework that reinterprets our current economic system as a complex web of exploitation hidden beneath everyday market transactions. Marx's work details how capitalists extract surplus value from workers while wage systems conceal this exploitation, and how capitalism emerged through violent primitive accumulation rather than entrepreneurial merit. His philosophical analysis identifies capitalism's internal contradictions between labor and capital that generate recurring crises, making the system inherently unstable. This short introduces readers to a philosophy that has profoundly shaped modern institutions worldwide, framing capitalism as inherently exploitative and containing the seeds of its own transformation.