Das Kapital by Karl Marx, in this stately Easton Press edition (1992), presents the foundational critique of capitalism in a volume as imposing as its intellectual legacy. Bound in full leather with 22-karat gold tooling and silk moiré endpapers, this edition transforms Marx’s dense economic treatise—written in exile and first published in 1867—into a striking artifact of radical thought.
The text dissects capitalism’s mechanics: commodity fetishism, surplus value, and the “spectre” of class struggle, culminating in Marx’s prophecy of systemic collapse. His razor-sharp analysis (“Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour”) remains a touchstone for critiques of inequality.
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” —A revolutionary ideal, clad in bourgeois leather.
