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Lohnarbeit und Kapital

by Karl Marx

"**Wage Labour and Capital**" (German: *Lohnarbeit und Kapital*) is an 1847 economics essay by Karl Marx, first published in articles in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung in April 1849. It is widely considered the precursor to Marx’s influential treatise *Das Kapital*. It is commonly paired with Marx's 1865 speech *Value, Price and Profit*. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_Labour_and_Capital))

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?