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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Das Kapital

Das Kapital stories: 3 news summaries

 Communists Rise in Japan 

Young Japanese see red over lack of workers' rights

May 5, 09 3:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - The recession has reversed a long slide in the fortunes of the Japanese Communist Party, the BBC reports. The party had been shrinking for decades, but membership is now growing at the rate of a thousand people a month. Young people—introduced to Communist ideology through efforts like a manga... More »

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communism • Japan • Communist Party • recession • Das Kapital

(Newser) - The woes of international capitalism are fueling renewed interest in the ur-texts of Chinese Communism, MSNBC reports. Sales of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital and Mao’s “little red book” are skyrocketing in China, where the publisher of Kapital has seen a fivefold increase in sales since... More »

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China • capitalism • global economy • Communism • Karl Marx • Mao Zedong • economic crisis • Das Kapital • little red book

China Prepares for Das Kapital:
The Musical

Marx's treatise gets some much-needed singing and dancing

Mar 17, 09 10:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Karl Marx's Das Kapital offers hundreds of pages of dense German prose on class struggle and modes of production—so why not add some singing and dancing? That's the idea of several Chinese producers who are mounting a Das Kapital musical, which promises a live band and Vegas-style theatrics to... More »

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China • theater • Marxism • musical theater • Karl Marx • musical • Das Kapital

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