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Karl Marxs Capital was first published in 1867, since then it has become the classic text of Marxism for professional economists, social scientists, philosophers, students and political activists alike. But the sheer extent of Marxs great work of political economy has often daunted readers and hampered their understanding of his ideas. No less a person than Harold Wilson jokingly claimed he gave up when he came across a two-page footnote on the first page. C. J. Arthur, whose student edition of The German Ideology by Marx and Engels has long proved popular, has substantially edited and abridged Marxs monumental work, eliminating the more arcane polemics, the scholarly footnotes, statistical data and mathematical formulae. He leaves intact and clarified Marxs main theoretical arguments and the historical information which supports them. Marxs Capital - A Student Edition makes one of the most influential texts of the modern era open and accessible to readers as never before.