A single page from one of Karl Marx's manuscripts has been sold for 523,000 US dollars at an auction¹ in Beijing, reports Chinanews.com.

 

中新网报道，卡尔·马克思的一页手稿在北京一场拍卖会上以52.3万美元成交。

 

The page, provided for auction by Chinese entrepreneur Feng Lun, was sold on Monday for about 3.34 million yuan (523,000 USD).

 

It began with a starting price of 300,000 yuan.

 

It includes extracts and analyses Marx made on British banker James William Gilbart's book "Practical Treatise² on Banking," which he referenced when writing his piece "Capital: Critique of Political Economy."

 

The manuscript is one of the 1,250 pages of notes Marx made in London from September 1850 to August 1853, based on which he wrote the first draft of "Capital". The notes are considered valuable materials to study the development of Marx's thoughts on economics.

 

The sale comes on the 200th anniversary this year of Marx's birth.

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