Part I: Commodities and Money - Chapter I: Commodities. Section 2: The Twofold Character of the Labour embodied in Commodities Section 1: The two Factors of a Commodity Use Value and Value (the Substance of value and the magnitude of value) To the First EditionĪuthor's Preface - II. Genre(s): *Non-fiction, Philosophy, Political ScienceĮditor's Preface - To the First English TranslationĪuthor's Preface - I. 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. 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.

Marx said himself that his aim was “to bring a science by criticism to the point where it can be dialectically represented”, and in this way to “reveal the law of motion of modern society”. 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. Translated by Friedrich Engels (1820 - 1895), Edward Aveling (1849 - 1898) et al.Ĭapital, 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. Download cover art Download CD case insert Capital: a critical analysis of capitalist production, Vol 1

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