Resumen
This book presents a condensed version of Karl Marx’s monumental work, Das Kapital, enriched with a commentary on scientific socialism. Aimed at a broader audience, it distills the core concepts of Marxist political economy while providing a theoretical framework for understanding socialism as a historical and scientific process.
The summary outlines Marx’s critique of capitalism, including:
The commodity and its value
The concept of surplus value and exploitation of labor
The accumulation of capital
The inevitable crises inherent in capitalist systems
The class struggle as the motor of historical change
The accompanying essay on scientific socialism (likely influenced by Engels or later Marxist theorists) contrasts utopian socialism with Marx’s materialist and dialectical approach, advocating for the inevitability of socialist revolution as a scientifically grounded outcome of capitalist contradictions.