Peter E. Gordon

One reason to welcome a new translation is that old terms and cadences tend to petrify: repeat a phrase often enough and its meaning can harden into doctrine, the very opposite of the critical attitude Marx wanted to encourage. Marx meant Capital to read as if it were a pedagogical exercise in dispelling illusion, penetrating the veil that bourgeois economists had draped over a system that depends on the exploitation of labour for the generation of profit.