![]() Yes, you could say that, although "Das Kapital" is an incredibly far-reaching work. Is this a rough outline of "Das Kapital"? Bernd Ziesemer, a market liberal and Karl Marx expert Image: M. ![]() ![]() But one day this exploitation becomes so intolerable that workers rebel and capitalism is overthrown. Capitalists try to keep wages as low as possible in order to maximize this surplus value. The difference between the value that a worker has created and his wage is the surplus value. In school in China, I learned that workers sell their labor to capitalists and receive a wage for it. Read more: Why a Marx monument is still controversial in Germany At the time I told the publisher that I am probably one of the few people in Germany who have read the main works of Karl Marx twice. Later I turned into a liberal and conservative, and always wanted to have another look at the books I had read in my youth. ![]() ![]() In my youth I was not a market liberal, but a communist, and at that time I read Karl Marx with the ideological glasses of the left. How did that happen?īernd Ziesemer: There are two reasons. And of all people, you as a free-marketeer, took on Karl Marx. DW : In 2012, the FAZ published a series of books which were meant to help ordinary readers understand some of the most important economists of the past. ![]()
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