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Times Online business correspondent Leo Lewis is looking forward to the upcoming publication of Das Kapital in a manga version in Japan in early December:

Japanese publishers have historically used cartoons to explain thorny diplomatic relations with China, advanced wine-tasting and even the spread of bird flu: the manga version of Das Kapital takes on even the toughest concepts thrown up in the original, from “commodity fetishism” to the precise process by which “the expropriators are expropriated”.

The comic is expected to sell tens of thousands of copies in its first weeks on sale, but is up against stiff competition: anti-capitalist books are the hottest sellers in capitalist Japan at the moment, and it will take something extraordinary to beat the sales of Hideki Mitani’s Greedy Capitalism and the Self Destructiveness of Wall Street.

Link via The Literary Saloon at the Complete Review.