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Capital, Volume I

Karl Marx

Marx's systematic critique of capitalist production, from the commodity and value-form through exploitation, accumulation, and primitive accumulation.

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Written / first published
1867
Format
Book
Difficulty
Advanced
Language
English
Edition
First English edition of 1887, translated by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling and edited by Friedrich Engels
Sections
35

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  1. Prefaces and Afterwords
  2. Chapter 1: Commodities
  3. Chapter 2: Exchange
  4. Chapter 3: Money, or the Circulation of Commodities
  5. Chapter 4: The General Formula for Capital
  6. Chapter 5: Contradictions in the General Formula of Capital
  7. Chapter 6: The Buying and Selling of Labour-Power
  8. Chapter 7: The Labour-Process and the Process of Producing Surplus-Value
  9. Chapter 8: Constant Capital and Variable Capital
  10. Chapter 9: The Rate of Surplus-Value
  11. Chapter 10: The Working Day
  12. Chapter 11: Rate and Mass of Surplus-Value
  13. Chapter 12: The Concept of Relative Surplus-Value
  14. Chapter 13: Co-operation
  15. Chapter 14: Division of Labour and Manufacture
  16. Chapter 15: Machinery and Modern Industry
  17. Chapter 16: Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value
  18. Chapter 17: Changes of Magnitude in the Price of Labour-Power and in Surplus-Value
  19. Chapter 18: Various Formulae for the Rate of Surplus-Value
  20. Chapter 19: The Transformation of the Value of Labour-Power into Wages
  21. Chapter 20: Time-Wages
  22. Chapter 21: Piece-Wages
  23. Chapter 22: National Differences of Wages
  24. Chapter 23: Simple Reproduction
  25. Chapter 24: Conversion of Surplus-Value into Capital
  26. Chapter 25: The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation
  27. Chapter 26: The Secret of Primitive Accumulation
  28. Chapter 27: Expropriation of the Agricultural Population from the Land
  29. Chapter 28: Bloody Legislation Against the Expropriated
  30. Chapter 29: Genesis of the Capitalist Farmer
  31. Chapter 30: Reaction of the Agricultural Revolution on Industry
  32. Chapter 31: Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist
  33. Chapter 32: Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation
  34. Chapter 33: The Modern Theory of Colonisation
  35. Appendix: The Value-Form