CAPITAL (All 3 Books)
Unveiling the Inner Workings of Capitalism: A Detailed Marxist AnalysisBy Karl Marx
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In "Capital," Karl Marx presents a profound critique of political economy, articulating the intricate workings of capitalism through a meticulous analysis of labor, value, and commodity production. Comprised of three volumes, this magnum opus employs a dialectical method, interweaving economic theory with philosophical inquiry, and draws upon historical materialism to contextualize social relations within capitalist societies. Marx's literary style is both rigorous and accessible, delivering a challenging yet rewarding reading experience that remains pivotal in contemporary debates surrounding economic systems and social inequalities. Karl Marx, a philosopher, economist, and revolutionary, drew inspiration from the tumultuous socio-economic changes of the 19th century, particularly the Industrial Revolution and its profound impact on labor and capital. His background in Hegelian philosophy and his collaboration with Friedrich Engels informed his analytical approach, allowing him to dissect the capitalist mode of production systematically. Marx's commitment to social justice and advocacy for the working class undoubtedly fueled his desire to reveal capitalism's inherent contradictions and its implications for human society. "Capital" is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the roots of modern economic systems and the socio-political conflicts they engender. By engaging with this foundational text, readers will gain critical insights into the dynamics of capitalism, enriching their perspectives on contemporary social struggles and economic inequalities. It is a compelling invitation to reflect critically on the structures that shape our lives.
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Table of contents
1CAPITAL (All 3 Books)
110III. The Turn-Over of the Variable Capital, Considered from the Point of View of Society
2Author’s Preface: First German Edition
111I. Simple Reproduction
3Editor’s Preface: First English Translation
112II. Accumulation and Reproduction on an Enlarged Scale
4I. The Two Factors of a Commodity: Use-Value and Value
113I. The Object of the Analysis
5II. The Two-fold Character of the Labour Embodied in Commodities
114II. The Role of Money-Capital
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6III. The Form of Value or Exchange-Value
115I. The Physiocrats
7IV. The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof
116II. Adam Smith
82. Exchange
117III. Smith Resolves Exchange-Value into V Plus S
9I. The Measure of Values
118IV. The Constant Portion of Capital.
10II. The Medium of Circulation
119V. Capital and Revenue in Adam Smith
11III. Money
120VI. The Economists after Smith
124. The General Formula for Capital
121I. The Formulation of the Question.
135. Contradictions in the General Formula of Capital
122II. The Two Departments of Social Production
146. The Buying and Selling of Labour-Power
123III. The Transactions between the Two Departments
15I. The Labour-Process or the Production of Use-Values
124IV. Necessities of Life and Articles of Luxury
16II. The Production of Surplus-Value
125V. The Promotion of the Transactions by the Circulation of Money
178. Constant Capital and Variable Capital
126VI. The Constant Capital of Department I
18I. The Degree of Exploitation of Labour-Power
127VII. Variable Capital and Surplus-Value in Both Departments
19II. The Representation of the Components of the Value of the Product
128VIII. The Constant Capital in both Departments
20III. Senior’s “Last Hour”
129IX. A Retrospect on Adam Smith, Storch, and Ramsay
21IV. Surplus-Produce
130X. Variable Capital and Wages
22I. The Limits of the Working day
131XI. Reproduction of the Fixed Capital
23II. The Greed for Surplus-Labor, Manufacturer and Boyard
132XII. The Reproduction of the Money Supply
24III. Branches of English Industry without Legal Limits to Exploitation
133XIII. Destutt De Tracy's Theory of Reproduction
25IV. Day and Night Work. The Relay System
134I. Accumulation in Department I
26V. Compulsory Laws for the Extension of the Working Day (Mid 14th- End 17th Century)
135II. Accumulation in Department II
27VI. Compulsory Limitation by Law of the Working-Time
136III. Diagrammatic Presentation of Accumulation
28VII. Reaction of the English Factory Acts on Other Countries
137IV. Concluding Remarks
2911. Rate and Mass of Surplus-Value
1381. Cost Price and Profit
3012. The Concept of Relative Surplus-Value
1392. The Rate of Profit
3113. Co-operation
1403. The Relation of the Rate of Profit to the Rate of Surplus-Value
32I. Two-Fold Origin of Manufacture
1414. The Effect of the Turn-Over on the Rate of Profit
33II. The Detail Labourer and his Implements
142I. General Economies.
34III. The Two Fundamental Forms of Manufacture
143II. Economies in the conditions of labor at the expense of the laborers.
35IV. Division of Labour in Manufacture, and Division of Labour in Society
144III. Economies in the Generation of Power, Transmission of Power, and Buildings.
36V. The Capitalistic Character of Manufacture
145IV. Utilisation of the Excrements of Production.
37I. The Development of Machinery
146V. Economies Due to Inventions.
38II. The Value Transferred by Machinery to the Product
147I. Fluctuations in the Price of Raw Materials, and their Direct Effects on the Rate of Profit.
39III. The Proximate Effects of Machinery on the Workman
148II. Appreciation, Depreciation, Release, and Tie-up of Capital.
40IV. The Factory
149III. General Illustration. The Cotton Crisis of 1861-1865.
41V. The Strife between Workman and Machine
1507. Additional Remarks
42VI. The Theory of Compensation as Regards the Workpeople Displaced by Machinery
1518. Different Composition of Capitals
43VII. Repulsion and Attraction of Workpeople by the Factory System
1529. Average Rate of Profit and Transformation of the Values of Commodities into Prices Of Production
44VIII. Revolution Effected in Manufacture, Handicrafts, and Domestic Industry
15310. Market Prices and Market Values. Surplus-Profit
45IX. The Factory Acts
15411. Effects of General Fluctuations of Wages on Prices of Production
46X. Modern Industry and Agriculture
155I. Causes Implying a Variation of the Price of Production.
4716. Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value
156II. Price of Production of Commodities of Average Composition.
48I. Length of the Working day and Intensity of Labour Constant
157III. Fluctuations for which the Capitalist makes Allowance.
49II. Working Day Constant
15813. The Theory of the Law
50III. Productiveness and Intensity of Labour Constant
159I. Raising the Intensity of Exploitation.
51IV. Simultaneous Variations in the Duration, Productiveness, and Intensity of Labour
160II. Depression of Wages Below their Value.
5218. Various Formula for the rate of Surplus-Value
161III. Cheapening of the Elements of Constant Capital.
5319. The Transformation of the Value and Respective Price of Labour-Power into Wages
162IV. Relative Overpopulation.
5420. Time-Wages
163V. Foreign Trade.
5521. Piece Wages
164VI. The Increase of Stock Capital.
5622. National Differences of Wages
165I. General Remarks.
5723. Simple Reproduction
166II. Conflict between the Expansion of Production and the Creation of Values.
58I. Capitalist Production on a Progressively Increasing Scale
167III. Surplus of Capital and Surplus of Population.
59II. Erroneous Conception
168IV. Supplementary Remarks.
60III. Separation of Surplus-Value into Capital and Revenue
16916. Commercial Capital
61IV. Circumstances that Determine the Amount of Accumulation
17017. Commercial Profit
62V. The So-Called Labour Fund
17118. The Turn-Over of Merchant's Capital
63I. The Increased Demand for Labour Power that Accompanies Accumulation
17219. Financial Capital
64II. Relative Diminution of the Variable Part of Capital
17320. Historical Data Concerning Merchants' Capital
65III. Progressive Production of a Relative Surplus Population or Industrial Reserve Army
17421. The Interest-Bearing Capital.
66IV. Different Forms of the Relative Surplus Population
17522. Division of Profit. Rate of Interest. Natural Rate of Interest
67V. Illustrations of the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation (pt. 1)
17623. Interest and Profit of Enterprise
68V. Illustrations of the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation (pt. 2)
17724. Externalisation of the Relations of Capital in the Form of Interest-Bearing Capital
6926. The Secret of Primitive Accumulation
17825. Credit and Fictitious Capital
7027. Expropriation of the Agricultural Population from the Land
17926. Accumulation of Money-Capital. Its Influence On The Rate Of Interest
7128. Bloody Legislation against the Expropriated
18027. The Role of Credit in Capitalist Production
7229. Genesis of the Capitalist Farmer
18128. The Medium of Circulation and Capital. Tooke's and Fullarton's Conception.
7330. Reaction of the Agricultural Revolution on Industry
18229. The Composition of Banking Capital.
7431. The Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist
18330. Money-Capital and Actual Capital - I
7532. Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation
18431. Money-Capital and Actual Capital - II
7633. The Modern Theory of Colonisation (pt. 1)
18532. Money-Capital and Actual Capital - III
7733. The Modern Theory of Colonisation (pt. 2)
18633. The Currency under the Credit System.
7833. The Modern Theory of Colonisation (pt. 3)
18734. The Currency Principle and the English Bank Laws of 1844.
7933. The Modern Theory of Colonisation (pt. 4)
188I. The Movements of the Gold Reserve.
80I. First Stage. M-C
189II. The Rate of Exchange.
81II. Second Stage. Functions of Productive Capital
190III. Rate of Exchange with Asia.
82III. Third Stage. C'-M'
191IV. England's Balance of Trade.
83IV. The Rotation as a Whole
192Interest in the Middle Ages.
84I. Simple Reproduction
193Advantage of the Prohibition of Interest for the Church.
85II. Accumulation and Reproduction on an Enlarged Scale
19437. Preliminaries
86III. Accumulation of Money
19538. Differential Rent
87IV. Reserve Funds
19639. The First Form of Differential Rent
883. The Circulation of Commodity-Capital
19740. The Second Form of Differential Rent
894. The Three Diagrams of the Process of Circulation
19841. First Case: Constant Price of Production
905. The Time of Circulation
199I. The Productivity of the Additional Investment of Capital Remains the Same.
91I. Genuine Expenses of Circulation.
200II. The Rate of Productivity of the Additional Capitals Decreases.
92II. Expenses of Storage.
201III. The Rate of Productivity of the Additional Capitals Increases.
93III. Expenses of Transportation
20243. Third Case: Rising Price of Production
947. The Period and Number of Turn-Overs
20344. Differential Rent Even Upon the Worst Soil under Cultivation
95I. Distinctions of Form
20445. Absolute Ground-Rent
96II. Composition, Reproduction, Repair, and Accumulation of Fixed Capital
20546. Building Lot Rent. Mining Rent. Price of Land
979. The Total Turn-Over of Advanced Capital
206I. Introductory Remarks.
9810. Theories of Fixed and Circulating Capital. The Physiocrats and Adam Smith
207II. Labor Rent.
9911. Theories of Fixed and Circulating Capital. Ricardo
208III. Rent in Kind.
10012. The Working Period
209IV. Money Rent.
10113. The Time of Production
210V. Share Farming (Metairie System) and Small Peasants' Property.
10214. The Time of Circulation
211I.
103I. The Working Period Equal to the Period of Circulation
212II.
104II. The Working Period Greater Than the Period of Circulation
213III.
105III. The Working Period Smaller Than the Circulation Period
21449. A Contribution to the Analysis of the Process of Production
106IV. Conclusions
21550. The Semblance of Competition
107V. The Effect of a Change of Prices
21651. Conditions of Distribution and Production
108I. The Annual Rate of Surplus-Value
21752. The Classes
109II. The Turn-Over of the Individual Variable Capital
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