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Rosa Luxemburg Explains Capitalism Using Spoons

The teenage Rosa Luxemburg teaches her family about Marx’s “Das Kapital.”

The teenage Rosa Luxemburg teaches her family about Marx's "Das Kapital."

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In this excerpt, the teenage Rosa Luxemburg teaches her family about Marx’s Das Kapital, explaining material and social relations and the problem of money.

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Copyright (2015) of Kate Evans. Not to be republished without permission of the publisher, Verso Books.

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