Capital: a critical analysis of capitalist production, Vol 1
by Karl Marx

Name: Capital: a critical analysis of capitalist production, Vol 1
Author: Karl Marx

Capital, Volume I is the first of three volumes in Karl Marx’s monumental work, Das Kapital, and the only volume to be published during his lifetime, in 1867.Marx’s aim in Capital, Volume I is to uncover and explain the laws specific to the capitalist mode of production and of the class struggles rooted in these capitalist social relations of production. Marx said himself that his aim was “to bring a science [i.e. political economy] by criticism to the point where it can be dialectically represented”, and in this way to “reveal the law of motion of modern society”. By showing how capitalist development was the precursor of a new, socialist mode of production, he aimed to provide a scientific foundation for the modern labour movement. In preparation for his book, he studied the economic literature available in his time for a period of twelve years, mainly in the British Museum in London. (Summary by Wikipedia)

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English

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History Philosophy Political Science Non-Fiction Reference work

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History Theory Revolution Commodity Analysis Society Capitalism Socialism Economics Capital Alienation Labor Critique Proletariat Bourgeoisie Class Struggle Historical Materialism Political Economy Exploitation Production Marxism Surplus value Dialectic

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Karl Marx

Prussia, Stateless

Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. Due to his political publications, Marx became stateless an...

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