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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (German: Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Ökonomie), also known as Capital, is a foundational theoretical text in materialist philosophy and critique of political economy written by Karl Marx, published as three volumes in 1867, 1885, and 1894.
Capital A Critique of Political Economy. Volume I Book One: The Process of Production of Capital. First published: in German in 1867, English edition first published in 1887;
Das Kapital, one of the major works of the 19th-century economist and philosopher Karl Marx (1818–83), in which he expounded his theory of the capitalist system, its dynamism, and its tendencies toward self-destruction. He described his purpose as to lay bare “the economic law of motion of modern society.”.
Volume IBook One: The Process of Production of Capital. First Published: in German in 1867; First Published in English: 1887; Source: First English edition of 1887 (4th German edition changes included as indicated) with some modernisation of spelling; Publisher: Progress Publishers, Moscow, USSR; Translated: Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling ...
NOTE: This study guide offers summary and commentary for Chapter 1, Section one; Chapter 4; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 10 and Chapter 14, all from Volume One of Das Kapital, or, in English, Capital. Karl Marx's Capital can be read as a work of economics, sociology and history.
89:1This work, whose firstvolumeI now 11:1 Das Werk, dessen ersten Band ich submit to the public, forms the continua- dem Publikum ubergebe, bildet die Fortset-¨ tion of my book Zur Kritik der Politischen zung meiner 1859 veroffentlichten Schrift:¨ Oekonomie, published in 1859. The long ” Zur Kritik der Politischen Oekonomie“.
First published on 14 September 1867, Volume I was the product of a decade of research and redrafting and is the only part of Das Kapital to be completed during Marx's life. It focuses on the aspect of capitalism that Marx refers to as the capitalist mode of production or how capitalism organises society to produce goods and services.
