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...utensils of everyday life with elaborate objets d'art. "We endeavor to give a complete picture of a culture-not only the people on top, but through everybody on down as well," he explains. Also successful was a centenary exhibition honoring Karl Marx, who wrote most of Das Kapital in the museum's reading room. The Duveen Gallery, housing the Elgin marbles, is equipped with a new recorded explanation of the treasure. The most ambitious new project is the General Catalogue of Printed Books, the world's largest single publication, whose 263 volumes list the library...
...reason why the book may bore Albanians is that so much of it is devoted to British industrialism about the time of Dickens. Das Kapital combines pyramids of abstraction with impassioned polemics more typical of the better known work of Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto...
...scientific" approach, however, Das Kapital pioneered a new form of social history; up to then, no one had really bothered to examine systematically such topics as British factory legislation, the diet of workers in Lancashire or the health risks in British coal mines...
...value is determined solely by the labor that goes into it; as Marx saw it, the capitalist pays the worker only a poor part of the real value of his output while skimming off the surplus as unjust profit. In perhaps the most widely touted passage from Das Kapital, he predicted that all this would inevitably lead to Communism: "The centralization of the means of production and the socialization of labor reach a point where they prove incompatible with their capitalist husk. The knell of private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated...
...interest; they thus grossly mismanaged their scarce investment capital. Now the Communist nations in Eu rope are embarked on vast experiments with profits, market pricing, bonuses and other incentives. Marx has, if anything, become something of an embarrassment. Last week the only Marxists who took much public note of Das Kapital's anniversary were the East Germans-perhaps because Marx was a German. East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht spoke at a symposium on Marx to explain why his regime has adopted the use of profits. He argued that profits are something different when they "increase social wealth...