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Video presentation of the 1960 GDR edition of Das Kapital

Maximilian Schönherr · 2024-01-13

A modern video presenting a 1960 East German edition of Karl Marx's Das Kapital. It is a present-day video about the book, not the book itself.

A modern video about a 1960 edition of Marx's major economic work, showing how his book was published in East Germany.

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Maximilian Schönherr, video presentation of Karl Marx, Das Kapital (DDR-Edition from 1960), 2024.

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This entry is a video about a 1960 East German edition of Karl Marx's Das Kapital. The video was created by Maximilian Schönherr and dated 13 January 2024. It is a modern video, not the book itself. The source does not describe the video's content in detail.

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Das Kapital is Marx's major work on capitalism and economics. Editions printed in different countries and periods show how the book was published and read in different political systems. The 1960 edition was published in the German Democratic Republic, where Marx's ideas were part of official state teaching.

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