Capital (Das Kapital) (Annotated)

Enriched Edition. Vol. 1-3: Complete Edition - Including The Communist Manifesto, Wage-Labour and Capital, & Wages, Price and ProfitBy Karl Marx

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Capital (Das Kapital) is Marx's monumental critique of political economy, a work that dissects the capitalist mode of production through concepts such as commodity fetishism, surplus value, exploitation, accumulation, and crisis. Written in a dense, dialectical style that combines philosophical argument, historical documentation, economic analysis, and biting irony, it stands at the intersection of nineteenth-century political economy, German philosophy, and socialist thought. Its central achievement is to reveal capitalism not as a natural order, but as a historically specific system structured by social relations of labor, value, and power. Karl Marx, trained in philosophy and shaped by Hegelian dialectics, journalism, political exile, and revolutionary activism, wrote Capital after decades of study in economics and history, much of it undertaken in the British Museum. His collaboration with Friedrich Engels, his observation of industrial Britain, and his commitment to understanding the material conditions of modern society all informed the book's formidable scope and urgency. This book is essential for readers seeking to understand capitalism's origins, dynamics, and contradictions. Challenging but profoundly rewarding, Capital remains indispensable to students of economics, history, sociology, philosophy, and political theory. This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience. - A succinct Introduction situates the work's timeless appeal and themes. - The Synopsis outlines the central plot, highlighting key developments without spoiling critical twists. - A detailed Historical Context immerses you in the era's events and influences that shaped the writing. - An Author Biography reveals milestones in the author's life, illuminating the personal insights behind the text. - A thorough Analysis dissects symbols, motifs, and character arcs to unearth underlying meanings. - Reflection questions prompt you to engage personally with the work's messages, connecting them to modern life. - Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.

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1Introduction

126V. The Promotion of the Transactions by the Circulation of Money

2Capital (Das Kapital)

127VI. The Constant Capital of Department I

3Author’s Preface: First German Edition

128VII. Variable Capital and Surplus-Value in Both Departments

4Editor’s Preface: First English Translation

129VIII. The Constant Capital in both Departments

5I. The Two Factors of a Commodity: Use-Value and Value

130IX. A Retrospect on Adam Smith, Storch, and Ramsay

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6II. The Two-fold Character of the Labour Embodied in Commodities

131X. Variable Capital and Wages

7III. The Form of Value or Exchange-Value

132XI. Reproduction of the Fixed Capital

8IV. The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof

133XII. The Reproduction of the Money Supply

92. Exchange

134XIII. Destutt De Tracy&#x27;s Theory of Reproduction

10I. The Measure of Values

135I. Accumulation in Department I

11II. The Medium of Circulation

136II. Accumulation in Department II

12III. Money

137III. Diagrammatic Presentation of Accumulation

134. The General Formula for Capital

138IV. Concluding Remarks

145. Contradictions in the General Formula of Capital

1391. Cost Price and Profit

156. The Buying and Selling of Labour-Power

1402. The Rate of Profit

16I. The Labour-Process or the Production of Use-Values

1413. The Relation of the Rate of Profit to the Rate of Surplus-Value

17II. The Production of Surplus-Value

1424. The Effect of the Turn-Over on the Rate of Profit

188. Constant Capital and Variable Capital

143I. General Economies.

19I. The Degree of Exploitation of Labour-Power

144II. Economies in the conditions of labor at the expense of the laborers.

20II. The Representation of the Components of the Value of the Product

145III. Economies in the Generation of Power, Transmission of Power, and Buildings.

21III. Senior’s “Last Hour”

146IV. Utilisation of the Excrements of Production.

22IV. Surplus-Produce

147V. Economies Due to Inventions.

23I. The Limits of the Working day

148I. Fluctuations in the Price of Raw Materials, and their Direct Effects on the Rate of Profit.

24II. The Greed for Surplus-Labor, Manufacturer and Boyard

149II. Appreciation, Depreciation, Release, and Tie-up of Capital.

25III. Branches of English Industry without Legal Limits to Exploitation

150III. General Illustration. The Cotton Crisis of 1861-1865.

26IV. Day and Night Work. The Relay System

1517. Additional Remarks

27V. Compulsory Laws for the Extension of the Working Day (Mid 14th- End 17th Century)

1528. Different Composition of Capitals

28VI. Compulsory Limitation by Law of the Working-Time

1539. Average Rate of Profit and Transformation of the Values of Commodities into Prices Of Production

29VII. Reaction of the English Factory Acts on Other Countries

15410. Market Prices and Market Values. Surplus-Profit

3011. Rate and Mass of Surplus-Value

15511. Effects of General Fluctuations of Wages on Prices of Production

3112. The Concept of Relative Surplus-Value

156I. Causes Implying a Variation of the Price of Production.

3213. Co-operation

157II. Price of Production of Commodities of Average Composition.

33I. Two-Fold Origin of Manufacture

158III. Fluctuations for which the Capitalist makes Allowance.

34II. The Detail Labourer and his Implements

15913. The Theory of the Law

35III. The Two Fundamental Forms of Manufacture

160I. Raising the Intensity of Exploitation.

36IV. Division of Labour in Manufacture, and Division of Labour in Society

161II. Depression of Wages Below their Value.

37V. The Capitalistic Character of Manufacture

162III. Cheapening of the Elements of Constant Capital.

38I. The Development of Machinery

163IV. Relative Overpopulation.

39II. The Value Transferred by Machinery to the Product

164V. Foreign Trade.

40III. The Proximate Effects of Machinery on the Workman

165VI. The Increase of Stock Capital.

41IV. The Factory

166I. General Remarks.

42V. The Strife between Workman and Machine

167II. Conflict between the Expansion of Production and the Creation of Values.

43VI. The Theory of Compensation as Regards the Workpeople Displaced by Machinery

168III. Surplus of Capital and Surplus of Population.

44VII. Repulsion and Attraction of Workpeople by the Factory System

169IV. Supplementary Remarks.

45VIII. Revolution Effected in Manufacture, Handicrafts, and Domestic Industry

17016. Commercial Capital

46IX. The Factory Acts

17117. Commercial Profit

47X. Modern Industry and Agriculture

17218. The Turn-Over of Merchant&#x27;s Capital

4816. Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value

17319. Financial Capital

49I. Length of the Working day and Intensity of Labour Constant

17420. Historical Data Concerning Merchants&#x27; Capital

50II. Working Day Constant

17521. The Interest-Bearing Capital.

51III. Productiveness and Intensity of Labour Constant

17622. Division of Profit. Rate of Interest. Natural Rate of Interest

52IV. Simultaneous Variations in the Duration, Productiveness, and Intensity of Labour

17723. Interest and Profit of Enterprise

5318. Various Formula for the rate of Surplus-Value

17824. Externalisation of the Relations of Capital in the Form of Interest-Bearing Capital

5419. The Transformation of the Value and Respective Price of Labour-Power into Wages

17925. Credit and Fictitious Capital

5520. Time-Wages

18026. Accumulation of Money-Capital. Its Influence On The Rate Of Interest

5621. Piece Wages

18127. The Role of Credit in Capitalist Production

5722. National Differences of Wages

18228. The Medium of Circulation and Capital. Tooke&#x27;s and Fullarton&#x27;s Conception.

5823. Simple Reproduction

18329. The Composition of Banking Capital.

59I. Capitalist Production on a Progressively Increasing Scale

18430. Money-Capital and Actual Capital - I

60II. Erroneous Conception

18531. Money-Capital and Actual Capital - II

61III. Separation of Surplus-Value into Capital and Revenue

18632. Money-Capital and Actual Capital - III

62IV. Circumstances that Determine the Amount of Accumulation

18733. The Currency under the Credit System.

63V. The So-Called Labour Fund

18834. The Currency Principle and the English Bank Laws of 1844.

64I. The Increased Demand for Labour Power that Accompanies Accumulation

189I. The Movements of the Gold Reserve.

65II. Relative Diminution of the Variable Part of Capital

190II. The Rate of Exchange.

66III. Progressive Production of a Relative Surplus Population or Industrial Reserve Army

191III. Rate of Exchange with Asia.

67IV. Different Forms of the Relative Surplus Population

192IV. England&#x27;s Balance of Trade.

68V. Illustrations of the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation (pt. 1)

193Interest in the Middle Ages.

69V. Illustrations of the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation (pt. 2)

194Advantage of the Prohibition of Interest for the Church.

7026. The Secret of Primitive Accumulation

19537. Preliminaries

7127. Expropriation of the Agricultural Population from the Land

19638. Differential Rent

7228. Bloody Legislation against the Expropriated

19739. The First Form of Differential Rent

7329. Genesis of the Capitalist Farmer

19840. The Second Form of Differential Rent

7430. Reaction of the Agricultural Revolution on Industry

19941. First Case: Constant Price of Production

7531. The Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist

200I. The Productivity of the Additional Investment of Capital Remains the Same.

7632. Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation

201II. The Rate of Productivity of the Additional Capitals Decreases.

7733. The Modern Theory of Colonisation (pt. 1)

202III. The Rate of Productivity of the Additional Capitals Increases.

7833. The Modern Theory of Colonisation (pt. 2)

20343. Third Case: Rising Price of Production

7933. The Modern Theory of Colonisation (pt. 3)

20444. Differential Rent Even Upon the Worst Soil under Cultivation

8033. The Modern Theory of Colonisation (pt. 4)

20545. Absolute Ground-Rent

81I. First Stage. M-C

20646. Building Lot Rent. Mining Rent. Price of Land

82II. Second Stage. Functions of Productive Capital

207I. Introductory Remarks.

83III. Third Stage. C&#x27;-M&#x27;

208II. Labor Rent.

84IV. The Rotation as a Whole

209III. Rent in Kind.

85I. Simple Reproduction

210IV. Money Rent.

86II. Accumulation and Reproduction on an Enlarged Scale

211V. Share Farming (Metairie System) and Small Peasants&#x27; Property.

87III. Accumulation of Money

212I.

88IV. Reserve Funds

213II.

893. The Circulation of Commodity-Capital

214III.

904. The Three Diagrams of the Process of Circulation

21549. A Contribution to the Analysis of the Process of Production

915. The Time of Circulation

21650. The Semblance of Competition

92I. Genuine Expenses of Circulation.

21751. Conditions of Distribution and Production

93II. Expenses of Storage.

21852. The Classes

94III. Expenses of Transportation

219Introduction

957. The Period and Number of Turn-Overs

220Chapter 1 Preliminary

96I. Distinctions of Form

221Chapter 2 What Are Wages?

97II. Composition, Reproduction, Repair, and Accumulation of Fixed Capital

222Chapter 3 By What is the Price of a Commodity Determined?

989. The Total Turn-Over of Advanced Capital

223Chapter 4 By What Are Wages Determined?

9910. Theories of Fixed and Circulating Capital. The Physiocrats and Adam Smith

224Chapter 5 The Nature and Growth of Capital

10011. Theories of Fixed and Circulating Capital. Ricardo

225Chapter 6 Relation of Wage-labor to Capital

10112. The Working Period

226Chapter 7 The General Law That Determines the Rise and Fall of Wages and Profits

10213. The Time of Production

227Chapter 8 The Interests of Capital and Wage-labor Are Diametrically Opposed -- Effect of Growth of Productive Capital on Wages

10314. The Time of Circulation

228Chapter 9 Effect of Capitalist Competition on the Capitalist Class, The Middle Class, and The Working Class

104I. The Working Period Equal to the Period of Circulation

229Preliminary

105II. The Working Period Greater Than the Period of Circulation

230I. Production and Wages

106III. The Working Period Smaller Than the Circulation Period

231II. Production, Wages, Profits

107IV. Conclusions

232III. Wages and Currency

108V. The Effect of a Change of Prices

233IV. Supply and Demand

109I. The Annual Rate of Surplus-Value

234V. Wages and Prices

110II. The Turn-Over of the Individual Variable Capital

235VI. Value and Labour

111III. The Turn-Over of the Variable Capital, Considered from the Point of View of Society

236VII. Labouring Power

112I. Simple Reproduction

237VIII. Production of Surplus Value

113II. Accumulation and Reproduction on an Enlarged Scale

238IX. Value of Labour

114I. The Object of the Analysis

239X. Profit is Made by Selling a Commodity at its Value

115II. The Role of Money-Capital

240XI. The Different Parts into Which Surplus Value is Decomposed

116I. The Physiocrats

241XII. General Relation of Profits, Wages and Prices

117II. Adam Smith

242XIII. Main Cases of Attempts at Raising Wages or Resisting Their Fall

118III. Smith Resolves Exchange-Value into V Plus S

243XIV. The Struggle Between Capital and Labour and its Results

119IV. The Constant Portion of Capital.

244PREFACE

120V. Capital and Revenue in Adam Smith

245MANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY.

121VI. The Economists after Smith

246I. BOURGEOIS AND PROLETARIANS.3

122I. The Formulation of the Question.

247II. PROLETARIANS AND COMMUNISTS.

123II. The Two Departments of Social Production

248III. SOCIALIST AND COMMUNIST LITERATURE.

124III. The Transactions between the Two Departments

249IV. POSITION OF THE COMMUNISTS IN RELATION TO THE VARIOUS EXISTING OPPOSITION PARTIES.

125IV. Necessities of Life and Articles of Luxury

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