CAPITAL (All 3 Books)
Unveiling the Inner Workings of Capitalism: A Detailed Marxist AnalysisBy Karl Marx
Length98h 5m
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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
1Author’s Preface: First German Edition
109III. The Turn-Over of the Variable Capital, Considered from the Point of View of Society
2Editor’s Preface: First English Translation
110I. Simple Reproduction
3I. The Two Factors of a Commodity: Use-Value and Value
111II. Accumulation and Reproduction on an Enlarged Scale
4II. The Two-fold Character of the Labour Embodied in Commodities
112I. The Object of the Analysis
5III. The Form of Value or Exchange-Value
113II. The Role of Money-Capital
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6IV. The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof
114I. The Physiocrats
72. Exchange
115II. Adam Smith
8I. The Measure of Values
116III. Smith Resolves Exchange-Value into V Plus S
9II. The Medium of Circulation
117IV. The Constant Portion of Capital.
10III. Money
118V. Capital and Revenue in Adam Smith
114. The General Formula for Capital
119VI. The Economists after Smith
125. Contradictions in the General Formula of Capital
120I. The Formulation of the Question.
136. The Buying and Selling of Labour-Power
121II. The Two Departments of Social Production
14I. The Labour-Process or the Production of Use-Values
122III. The Transactions between the Two Departments
15II. The Production of Surplus-Value
123IV. Necessities of Life and Articles of Luxury
168. Constant Capital and Variable Capital
124V. The Promotion of the Transactions by the Circulation of Money
17I. The Degree of Exploitation of Labour-Power
125VI. The Constant Capital of Department I
18II. The Representation of the Components of the Value of the Product
126VII. Variable Capital and Surplus-Value in Both Departments
19III. Senior’s “Last Hour”
127VIII. The Constant Capital in both Departments
20IV. Surplus-Produce
128IX. A Retrospect on Adam Smith, Storch, and Ramsay
21I. The Limits of the Working day
129X. Variable Capital and Wages
22II. The Greed for Surplus-Labor, Manufacturer and Boyard
130XI. Reproduction of the Fixed Capital
23III. Branches of English Industry without Legal Limits to Exploitation
131XII. The Reproduction of the Money Supply
24IV. Day and Night Work. The Relay System
132XIII. Destutt De Tracy's Theory of Reproduction
25V. Compulsory Laws for the Extension of the Working Day (Mid 14th- End 17th Century)
133I. Accumulation in Department I
26VI. Compulsory Limitation by Law of the Working-Time
134II. Accumulation in Department II
27VII. Reaction of the English Factory Acts on Other Countries
135III. Diagrammatic Presentation of Accumulation
2811. Rate and Mass of Surplus-Value
1361. Cost Price and Profit
2912. The Concept of Relative Surplus-Value
1372. The Rate of Profit
3013. Co-operation
1383. The Relation of the Rate of Profit to the Rate of Surplus-Value
31I. Two-Fold Origin of Manufacture
1394. The Effect of the Turn-Over on the Rate of Profit
32II. The Detail Labourer and his Implements
140I. General Economies.
33III. The Two Fundamental Forms of Manufacture
141II. Economies in the conditions of labor at the expense of the laborers.
34IV. Division of Labour in Manufacture, and Division of Labour in Society
142III. Economies in the Generation of Power, Transmission of Power, and Buildings.
35V. The Capitalistic Character of Manufacture
143IV. Utilisation of the Excrements of Production.
36I. The Development of Machinery
144V. Economies Due to Inventions.
37II. The Value Transferred by Machinery to the Product
145I. Fluctuations in the Price of Raw Materials, and their Direct Effects on the Rate of Profit.
38III. The Proximate Effects of Machinery on the Workman
146II. Appreciation, Depreciation, Release, and Tie-up of Capital.
39IV. The Factory
147III. General Illustration. The Cotton Crisis of 1861-1865.
40V. The Strife between Workman and Machine
1487. Additional Remarks
41VI. The Theory of Compensation as Regards the Workpeople Displaced by Machinery
1498. Different Composition of Capitals
42VII. Repulsion and Attraction of Workpeople by the Factory System
1509. Average Rate of Profit and Transformation of the Values of Commodities into Prices Of Production
43VIII. Revolution Effected in Manufacture, Handicrafts, and Domestic Industry
15110. Market Prices and Market Values. Surplus-Profit
44IX. The Factory Acts
15211. Effects of General Fluctuations of Wages on Prices of Production
45X. Modern Industry and Agriculture
153I. Causes Implying a Variation of the Price of Production.
4616. Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value
154II. Price of Production of Commodities of Average Composition.
47I. Length of the Working day and Intensity of Labour Constant
155III. Fluctuations for which the Capitalist makes Allowance.
48II. Working Day Constant
15613. The Theory of the Law
49III. Productiveness and Intensity of Labour Constant
157I. Raising the Intensity of Exploitation.
50IV. Simultaneous Variations in the Duration, Productiveness, and Intensity of Labour
158II. Depression of Wages Below their Value.
5118. Various Formula for the rate of Surplus-Value
159III. Cheapening of the Elements of Constant Capital.
5219. The Transformation of the Value and Respective Price of Labour-Power into Wages
160IV. Relative Overpopulation.
5320. Time-Wages
161V. Foreign Trade.
5421. Piece Wages
162VI. The Increase of Stock Capital.
5522. National Differences of Wages
163I. General Remarks.
5623. Simple Reproduction
164II. Conflict between the Expansion of Production and the Creation of Values.
57I. Capitalist Production on a Progressively Increasing Scale
165III. Surplus of Capital and Surplus of Population.
58II. Erroneous Conception
166IV. Supplementary Remarks.
59III. Separation of Surplus-Value into Capital and Revenue
16716. Commercial Capital
60IV. Circumstances that Determine the Amount of Accumulation
16817. Commercial Profit
61V. The So-Called Labour Fund
16918. The Turn-Over of Merchant's Capital
62I. The Increased Demand for Labour Power that Accompanies Accumulation
17019. Financial Capital
63II. Relative Diminution of the Variable Part of Capital
17120. Historical Data Concerning Merchants' Capital
64III. Progressive Production of a Relative Surplus Population or Industrial Reserve Army
17221. The Interest-Bearing Capital.
65IV. Different Forms of the Relative Surplus Population
17322. Division of Profit. Rate of Interest. Natural Rate of Interest
66V. Illustrations of the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation (pt. 1)
17423. Interest and Profit of Enterprise
67V. Illustrations of the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation (pt. 2)
17524. Externalisation of the Relations of Capital in the Form of Interest-Bearing Capital
6826. The Secret of Primitive Accumulation
17625. Credit and Fictitious Capital
6927. Expropriation of the Agricultural Population from the Land
17726. Accumulation of Money-Capital. Its Influence On The Rate Of Interest
7028. Bloody Legislation against the Expropriated
17827. The Role of Credit in Capitalist Production
7129. Genesis of the Capitalist Farmer
17928. The Medium of Circulation and Capital. Tooke's and Fullarton's Conception.
7230. Reaction of the Agricultural Revolution on Industry
18029. The Composition of Banking Capital.
7331. The Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist
18130. Money-Capital and Actual Capital - I
7432. Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation
18231. Money-Capital and Actual Capital - II
7533. The Modern Theory of Colonisation (pt. 1)
18332. Money-Capital and Actual Capital - III
7633. The Modern Theory of Colonisation (pt. 2)
18433. The Currency under the Credit System.
7733. The Modern Theory of Colonisation (pt. 3)
18534. The Currency Principle and the English Bank Laws of 1844.
7833. The Modern Theory of Colonisation (pt. 4)
186I. The Movements of the Gold Reserve.
79I. First Stage. M-C
187II. The Rate of Exchange.
80II. Second Stage. Functions of Productive Capital
188III. Rate of Exchange with Asia.
81III. Third Stage. C'-M'
189IV. England's Balance of Trade.
82IV. The Rotation as a Whole
190Interest in the Middle Ages.
83I. Simple Reproduction
191Advantage of the Prohibition of Interest for the Church.
84II. Accumulation and Reproduction on an Enlarged Scale
19237. Preliminaries
85III. Accumulation of Money
19338. Differential Rent
86IV. Reserve Funds
19439. The First Form of Differential Rent
873. The Circulation of Commodity-Capital
19540. The Second Form of Differential Rent
884. The Three Diagrams of the Process of Circulation
19641. First Case: Constant Price of Production
895. The Time of Circulation
197I. The Productivity of the Additional Investment of Capital Remains the Same.
90I. Genuine Expenses of Circulation.
198II. The Rate of Productivity of the Additional Capitals Decreases.
91II. Expenses of Storage.
199III. The Rate of Productivity of the Additional Capitals Increases.
92III. Expenses of Transportation
20043. Third Case: Rising Price of Production
937. The Period and Number of Turn-Overs
20144. Differential Rent Even Upon the Worst Soil under Cultivation
94I. Distinctions of Form
20245. Absolute Ground-Rent
95II. Composition, Reproduction, Repair, and Accumulation of Fixed Capital
20346. Building Lot Rent. Mining Rent. Price of Land
969. The Total Turn-Over of Advanced Capital
204I. Introductory Remarks.
9710. Theories of Fixed and Circulating Capital. The Physiocrats and Adam Smith
205II. Labor Rent.
9811. Theories of Fixed and Circulating Capital. Ricardo
206III. Rent in Kind.
9912. The Working Period
207IV. Money Rent.
10013. The Time of Production
208V. Share Farming (Metairie System) and Small Peasants' Property.
10114. The Time of Circulation
209I.
102I. The Working Period Equal to the Period of Circulation
210II.
103II. The Working Period Greater Than the Period of Circulation
211III.
104III. The Working Period Smaller Than the Circulation Period
21249. A Contribution to the Analysis of the Process of Production
105IV. Conclusions
21350. The Semblance of Competition
106V. The Effect of a Change of Prices
21451. Conditions of Distribution and Production
107I. The Annual Rate of Surplus-Value
21552. The Classes
108II. The Turn-Over of the Individual Variable Capital
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