Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist ProductionFirst published in 1867, Capital, or Das Kapital, is the infamous treatise on economics and capitalism by Prussian revolutionary KARL MARX (1818-1883), who changed history with his 1848 book The Communist Manifesto. In this work, edited by Marx's friend, German philosopher FRIEDRICH ENGELS (1820-1895), Marx systematically analyzes the way the capitalist machine functions. In this academic work written for students and serious thinkers, he explores wages, competition, banking, rent, and the natural laws that seem to govern the development of capitalism without any oversight by the society in which it developed. Originally published in three volumes, Capital is here presented in five volumes. Volume I, Part I covers: . Commodities and Money . The Transformation of Money Into Capital . The Production of Absolute Surplus-Power |
Contents
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The Elementary Form of Value considered as a Whole | 69 |
The General Form of Value | 75 |
The Struggle for a Normal WorkingDay Compulsory Laws | 290 |
The Struggle for a Normal WorkingDay Compulsory Limitation | 304 |
The Struggle for a Normal WorkingDay Reaction of the Eng | 326 |
PART IV | 342 |
CoOperation | 353 |
Division of Labour and Manufacture | 368 |
Heterogeneous | 375 |
Division of Labour in Manufacture and Division of Labour | 385 |
The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret thereof | 81 |
Exchange | 96 |
Money or the Circulation of Commodities | 106 |
The Medium of Circulation | 116 |
Universal Money | 159 |
Contradictions in the General Formula of Capital | 173 |
The Buying and Selling of LabourPower | 185 |
THE PRODUCTION OF ABSOLUTE SURPLUSvalue | 197 |
The Production of SurplusValue | 207 |
Constant Capital and Variable Capital | 221 |
The Rate of SurplusValue | 235 |
The Representation of the Components of the Value of the Pro | 244 |
SurplusProduce | 254 |
Branches of English Industry without Legal Limits to Exploitation | 268 |
Day and Night Work The Relay System | 282 |
The Capitalistic Character of Manufacture | 395 |
Machinery and Modern Industry | 405 |
The Value transferred by Machinery to the Product | 422 |
The Proximate Effects of Machinery on the Workman | 430 |
The Factory | 457 |
The Strife between Workman and Machinery | 466 |
The Theory of Compensation as regards the Workpeople displaced | 478 |
Repulsion and Attraction of Workpeople by the Factory System | 488 |
Revolution effected in Manufacture Handicrafts and Domestic | 502 |
The Factory Acts Sanitary and Educational Clauses of the same | 526 |
Progressive Production of a Relative SurplusPopulation or Indus | 533 |
PART VIII | 544 |
Modern Industry and Agriculture | 553 |
Common terms and phrases
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Popular passages
Page 16 - My standpoint, from which the evolution of the economic formation of society is viewed as a process of natural history, can less than any other make the individual responsible for relations whose creature he socially remains, however much he may subjectively raise himself above them.
Page 45 - If then we leave out of consideration the use-value of commodities, they have only one common property left, that of being products of labour.