Marx's Das Kapital makes a comeback

From the AP story on globeandmail.com:

Some Germans seem to be seeking solace in the words of their countryman Karl Marx amid the global financial crisis - to the delight of a small academic publisher.

The Karl-Dietz Verlag has sold 1,500 copies of Marx's Das Kapital this year, making the annotated edition of the dense text an unlikely hit for the Berlin publisher. It moved 200 in September, as many as it used to sell in a year.

"It's definitely in vogue right now," said Joern Schuetrumpf, the publisher's director. "The financial crisis brought us a huge bump."