The Party experienced a resurgence following the termination of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union, with party membership swelling from 4,000 when the ban was first imposed to 20,000 by the end of 1943. The Communist Party of Australia, founded in 1920, was temporarily banned from May 1940 to December 1942 due its attempt to disrupt the Australian war effort against Germany in the early stages of the Second World War. The publication appeared during a turbulent time for Marxism in Australia. The first edition of Das Kapital to be published in Australia, an abridgement based on the English translation of the first volume of Kapital by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling, originally published in London by Swan Sonneschein in 1887. Original quarter blue cloth with drab boards, front cover lettered in blue (corners bumped, extremities lightly rubbed). 159, pp., black and white photographic portrait of Marx to title page.
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