Min Ji-young: Capital in Comics

Since its first publication in 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' Communist Manifesto and Capital have continued to be widely read and to inspire people around the world. Now Capital in Comics has been published for today's generation. Although it is presented as a comic, you will not turn its pages with a light heart. We may want to believe in the illusion that in an obviously capitalist society "classes do not exist and everyone is equal," but we all know too well that reality is not like that. Marx and Engels defined human history as the history of class struggle and argued that capitalist society would disappear through the struggle and revolution of the proletariat. But communism collapsed, capitalism grew entrenched, and we live amid social problems that are worsening day by day, including labor exploitation, unemployment, layoffs, wealth polarization, and poverty. In this reality, the despair and hope of young people who dream of economic freedom while becoming ever more immersed in capitalist life are being driven toward increasingly extreme poles. If this makes you wonder, "Why should we meet Marx again now?" then you have all the more reason to read this book. The author emphasizes that one person's life exists in relationships inseparable from countless other people, objects, and animals. Everything we eat, use, wear, and enjoy is made through the hands of people we have never met, in places we have never visited and may never visit, people we may never encounter throughout our lives. In industrial society, we do not produce our own clothes, farm our own food, or build our own homes.

Korean title: 만화로 읽는 자본론

Korean author: 민지영

Korean publisher: 곰출판

ISBN-13: 9791189327293