Michael Heinrich, Alix Bouffard, Alexandre Feron, and Guillaume Fondu, Ce qu’est le Capital de Marx

On March 18th, 1872, writing to the French publisher of Das Kapital, Maurice La Châtre, Marx modestly affirmed that “there is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.” The merit of this work is precisely in exposing the reader to the “steep paths” that Marx himself traveled, as well as those taken by his publishers and translators. Thus, this work offers an outline of the textual and concept...