'Das Kapital' and 'The Communist Manifesto' are two political, economic and social essays written by German philosopher Karl Marx. The first was published in 1867 and the latter in 1848.
Karl Marx wrote "The Communist Manifesto" and "Das Kapital," which are two of his most famous works that laid the foundation for the socialist movement and critiques on capitalism.
He is the founder of communism, and with Friedrich Engel he founded marxism. He also wrote "The Communist Manifesto", "Das Kapital" and "Materialist conception of history"
Marx's most famous writing was his economic treatise "Das Kapital", as he titled it in his native German, or "Capital" in English. In it he outlined his views on capitalism and communism. Also his "Communist Manifesto" (written with Fredrich Engels) is extremely important, as it outlines the entire theory of class struggle and the stages of history. Opinion Das Kapital had several versions. The last one was published after the death of Marx. By far The Communist Manifesto was his most famous book.
Marx wrote a lot of books and pamphlets in his time but the two he is most known for are The Communist Manifesto (with Friedrich Engels) and Capital. There was going to be four volumes of Capital but Marx only finished the first in his lifetime. When he died he was nearly done with the second and making considerable progress with the third but the fourth volume never got beyong the rough manuscript stage which was later published as Theories of Surplus Value.
Das Kapital was written by Karl Marx, and its main idea was that exploitation of labor is the driving force of the capitalist economic system. The Communist Manifesto was written by Marx and Friedrich Engels some years earlier, and critiques capitalism more broadly.
Yes, Engels did edit some of that work, but he did not co-write it the way he co-wrote 'The Communist Manifesto.'
Karl Marx, wrote about this in Das Kapital and other writings such as the Communist Manifesto.
The Communist Manifesto
Friedrich Engels co-authored The Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx in 1848. He would later finance Marx in the writing of Das Kapital.
Friedrich Engels edited 'Das Kapital.' Karl Marx wrote it.
Karl Marx wrote "The Hope Of The People" Marx wrote "The Communist Manifesto" (with Friedrich Engels) and "Das Kapital". He wrote other philosophical works both alone and with Engels. While Karl Marx's most famous books on communism today are Das Capital and The Communist Manifesto, he has also written: Marx also wrote Critique of Political Economy. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, Grundrisse, The German Ideology, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, and Theses on Feuerbach. All of the books he has written deal with Communism/Marxism.
A famous writing of Karl Marx by himself is his economic treatise called 'Das Kapital' in German. The English translation is 'Capital.' The famous writing he made with Friedrich Engels is 'The Communist Manifesto.'