Karl Marx - Das Kapital

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A detailed commentary on the substantive sections of Das Kapital from a transpersonal historical perspective, explaining how and why Marx chose to write in this way and what it seems he was actually proposing in the way of philosophical content, both consciously and unconsciously. What is unique about this Commentary is that the author goes into much of the philosophical detail and the underpinnings of Marxism and its relationship to other philosophical schools of thought, including esoteric thought such as the Qabalah, that were essential features of the background in which Marx's thought was steeped. The author includes aspects of his previously published work: "Towards A History Of The Interrelations Of Marxism And Esotericism" (IIPSGP Publications, 1990) in this detailed commentary. Dr Daffern author is writing neither from the perspective of being a Marxist, nor from the perspective of being an anti-Marxist, but rather as a historian of ideas, a Marxologist and a philosopher of history, trying to make sense of one of the most complex and influential texts published in the last 150 years (Das Kapital was first published in 1867).