Moneybags Must Be So Lucky: On the Literary Structure of Capital - Paperback

by Robert P. Wolff (Author)

Karl Marx's great work, Capital, has intrigued and puzzled readers for more than a century by its mystifyingly intricate arguments and dramatic literary embellishments. In this book, Robert Paul Wolff dispels much of the mystery surrounding Capital by providing a literary-philosophical analysis of the text and of Marx's intentions.

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Karl Marx's great work, Capital, has intrigued and puzzled readers for more than a century by its mystifyingly intricate arguments and dramatic literary embellishments. In this book, Robert Paul Wolff dispels much of the mystery surrounding Capital by providing a literary-philosophical analysis of the text and of Marx's intentions.

Author Biography

ROBERT PAUL WOLFF (1933-2025) was one of the most wide-ranging and intellectually adventurous American political philosophers of the twentieth century. A prolific author and lifelong public intellectual, Wolff wrote across political philosophy, Kantian metaphysics, Marxist theory, and African American studies. His books include In Defense of Anarchism (1970), The Poverty of Liberalism, Kant's Theory of Mental Activity (1963), The Autonomy of Reason (1974), Understanding Marx (1984), Understanding Rawls (1977), and Autobiography of an Ex-White Man: Learning a New Master Narrative for America (2005). He also co-authored A Critique of Pure Tolerance (1965) with Herbert Marcuse and Barrington Moore Jr. He maintained a widely read blog, The Philosopher's Stone, and remained an active public voice until the end of his life.