‎MARX, KAROL [KARL]. [Translators:] PAVOL MUSIL (+) JAN ROZNER. ‎
‎Kapitál. Kritika politickej ekonómie. 3 vols. - [FIRST SLOVAKIAN TRANSLATION OF 'DAS KAPITAL']‎

‎Bratislava, Vydalo Slovenské vydavatel'stvo politickej literatúry, 1955 - 1958. 8vo. 4 volumes, all in publisher's original full cloth. Gilt lettering to spines and front boards and Marx in profile blind-stamped to front boards. A very fine and clean set. 918, (2) pp + fontiespiece of Marx 590, (2) pp 515, (4) pp 541, (4) pp. ‎

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‎Rare first Slovakian translation of Marx’ landmark work ‘Das Kapital’. A Czech translation was made in 1913 which, due to similarities between the languages, for a while made a Slovakian translation superfluous. Because of the dominance from the Soviet a need for a Slovak translation rose and a complete transition of all three volumes were published between 1955 and 1958. In the Czech lands and Slovakia the study of economics developed later than in the West European countries. An urgent need for economic study arose only in the 19th century, when the disintegration of feudal relations and the development of capitalism, were accompanied by a national revival. Marxist economic theory was somewhat slow to gain a following in the Czech lands and Slovakia. ‎