Capital, Volume I (1867), by Karl Marx, is a critical analysis of capitalism as political economy, meant to reveal the economic laws of the capitalist mode of production, how it was the precursor of the socialist mode of production, and of the class struggle rooted in the capitalist social relations of production. The first of three volumes of Das Kapital, Kritik der politischen Ökonomie (Capital: Critique of Political Economy) was published on 14 September 1867, and was the sole volume published in Marx's lifetime.
Read more about Capital, Volume I: Part One: Commodities and Money, Part Two: The Transformation of Money Into Capital, Part Three: The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value, Part Four: The Production of Relative Surplus-Value, Part Five: The Production of Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value, Part Six: Wages, Part Seven: The Process of Accumulation of Capital, Part Eight: So-Called Primitive Accumulation
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