"In 1867, when the first volume of Capital was published in German, it was greeted with such silence that the author's best friend and patron, Friedrich Engels, submitted pseudonymous reviews, most of them combative, to the leading German newspapers, in a futile effort to drum up publicity."
"Frustrated, Marx asked Engels, in one of the German reviews he wrote, to summarize Capital simply, using language that Marx helpfully supplied: It showed how present society, economically considered, is pregnant with a new, higher form, and it revealed in human civilization the same gradual process of evolution that Darwin has demonstrated in natural history, thus confirming the doctrine of progress."
"It's a sign of our times that the editor and translator of an eagerly anticipated new English edition of the book largely ignore both Darwin and the idea of progress in their copious notes."
"Still, no previous English version of Capital has featured such an erudite critical apparatus or such an exacting translation. It's a remarkable achievement that forces readers to attend to the philosophical subtleties of Marx's argument."
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