This volume is a tribute to the 150 years since the publication of the first volume of Capital (1867-2017), the most important book for contemporary enslaved humanity, the more than 7.7 billion human beings who populate this planet today. In this book Karl Marx accomplishes the great, epoch-making theoretical feat of pointing out the poor of the Earth and the entire world, in order to precisely establish the conditions of possibility so that modern slaves can free themselves from their chains. , who and how dominates them.

In these pages Jorge Veraza identifies and values ​​this great theoretical feat of Marx, develops the concepts that he builds in his work and demonstrates the validity of the proposal of scientific socialism consisting of the need for communist revolution as the only way to break the chains that bourgeois society imposes on humanity and to build a society in which the deep contradictions that constitute today's globalized bourgeois society are overcome.

In conclusion of this book, the author argues that the absolute law of the capitalist mode of production is the historical necessity of the proletarian-communist revolution that destroys it. But today—unlike in Marx's day—that question requires separating the proletarian revolution proposed by Marx from the revolutions that occurred in the 20th century and in particular from the October Revolution. Thus, we will also see how the criticism of the socioeconomic regimes that emerged from that revolution is in fact part of the criticism of the bourgeois mode of production and therefore enrichment of the theoretical feat that Marx carried out in his work.

The essays collected in this volume are based on conferences given by Jorge Veraza during 2017 with the intention of showing the service that Capital provides to contemporary social sciences. Such is the path he chose to celebrate the anniversary of the publication of Marx's critique of political economy and demonstrate its full validity and relevance for both science and life.