A single page from one of Karl Marx's manuscripts has been sold for 523,000 US dollars at an auction in Beijing, reports Chinanews.com.
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 Treatise 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.
Meanwhile, a manuscript written by Friedrich Engels has been sold at the same auction 1.67 million yuan. It is an article Engels wrote for newspaper Allgemeine Militärzeitung in November 1862.
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