Das Kapital
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- noun
- /dɑs kɑˈpɪtəl/
:
El Capital
- Many universities include Das Kapital in their economics curriculum.
- Marx's Das Kapital
- Karl Marx's Das Kapital
Examples
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Studying Das Kapital provides deep insights into Marxist theory.
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The book Das Kapital contains ideas that are responsible for the deaths of millions of people in the 20th century, but I'd still suggest people read it.
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God, "Das Kapital" looks difficult.
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There was such a book: Das Kapital.
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I've read Das Kapital, all three volumes.
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When reading Das Kapital, she remarks that "it had been the first time a white man ever made sense" (311).
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That this should require all three volumes of Das Kapital might be thought to be a backhanded compliment to the intelligence of bourgeois mystification.
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If you tell me to go out and read "Das Kapital," or not cross a picket line, aren't you advocating a type of behavior, a type of lifestyle?
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Larry McMurtry's promotional blurb on the first sheet of the book might thus be a bit more accurate: "If Karl Marx had chosen to make Das Kapital a novel set in the Americas, he might have come out with a book something like this."
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Karl Marx wrote a groundbreaking economic work entitled Das Kapital in 1867.
Synonyms
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9.6
A major book by Karl Marx that explains his ideas about capitalism
A major book by Karl Marx about how capitalism works
Surface Forms
Morphology
Das + Kapital
The components are German cognates ('Das' = 'the', 'Kapital' ≈ 'capital'), so a learner who knows the words would get the literal sense 'the capital' but would not reliably infer that this is the title of Karl Marx's major book. Because it is a proper title and a specific cultural/literary reference, the full meaning requires world knowledge beyond the constituent meanings.
Etymology
Das Kapital comes from German: Das means 'the' and Kapital means 'capital' or 'money used in business'. Karl Marx named the book this because he studies how 'capital' (money and business) works, so the title shows the book is about 'capitalism'.