From the irony files: Copy of 'Das Kapital' sells for $40,000

la times ^ | 7-7-2014 | CAROLYN KELLOGG

[Citizen Zed]

Karl Marx was not a big fan of capitalism, as he explained in his landmark book "Das Kapital." Ironically, a first edition of it sold for big bucks at AbeBooks last week for a whopping $40,000.

In the book, the philosophical basis of Marxism, Marx wrote about the fetishization of commodities, decried the bourgeoisie and argued against the exploitation of labor.

Safe to say it wasn't a strict Marxist who could afford to drop $40,000 on a book.

[Citizen Zed]

And I wonder which liberal's check is about to bounce.

[detective]

Marxists are all liars and hypocrites so this should not surprise anybody.

Marx is unreadable and incoherent. I doubt anyone has actually read his original writings and this is in German.

It may be a fake sale. That is an exchange between two related parties in which no real money actually changes hands but which provides an inflated value for the asset in question.

[Texas Eagle]

What’s so ironic about that? Marx didn’t just give the book away did he?

[jimt]

Should have bought Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. It was written by someone who actually knew something about economics.