"The first translated publication of Das Kapital was in the Russian Empire in March 1872. It was the first foreign publication and the English edition appeared in 1887. Despite Russian censorship proscribing “the harmful doctrines of Socialism and Communism,” the Russian censors considered Das Kapital as “a strictly scientific work” of political economy, the content of which did not apply to monarchic Russia, where “capitalist exploitation” had never occurred and was officially dismissed, given “that very few people in Russia will read it, and even fewer will understand it.”
never underestimate the shortsightedness of the reactionaries and the ruling class
The lighter areas of the photo make it really hard to read
yeah you’re right.