Citation: Robert Paul Wolff (1988) Moneybags Must Be So Lucky: On the Literary Structure of Capital.
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Author claims Marx wrote the first volume of Capital in an ironic, literary style:

not because he couldn't write in the straightforward explanatory manner of classical economists; noted that similar material is covered by Marx in just that style in an earlier work
religion and politics had been demystified by philosophers and the French revolution
to show that economics needed to be demystified, Marx had to show that it had been mystified and was crazy, contrary to the straightforward explanations of the classical economists
this simultaneous mystification and demystificaiton required ironic literary style

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