Capital: The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Profit, Rent, Credit, and Crisis in the Critique of Political EconomyBy Karl Marx
Length39h 33m
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In Capital: The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole, Karl Marx completes his systematic critique of political economy by moving from the hidden production of surplus value to the visible forms through which capitalism appears to itself: profit, interest, rent, credit, and crisis. Dense, dialectical, and relentlessly analytical, the work exposes how social relations between people assume the mystified form of relations between things. As the culminating volume of Capital, it belongs to the nineteenth-century tradition of classical political economy while decisively overturning its assumptions. Marx wrote from a life shaped by exile, journalism, revolutionary politics, and painstaking study in the British Museum reading room. His engagement with Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and the industrial capitalism of Victorian Britain enabled him to see capitalism not as a natural order, but as a historically specific system marked by exploitation, contradiction, and periodic breakdown. Edited posthumously by Friedrich Engels, the book bears traces of Marx's unfinished manuscripts yet preserves the force of his mature thought. This volume is indispensable for readers seeking to understand capitalism beyond market appearances. Economists, historians, political theorists, and serious general readers will find in it a demanding but profoundly illuminating account of how capitalist society organizes wealth, power, and crisis.
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.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
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GenreBusiness and Economics
Length39 hrs 33 mins
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Publish dateMay 1, 2018
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Table of contents
1Introduction
2Part 1 - The Conversion Of Surplus-Value Into Profit And of the Rate Of Surplus-Value Into The Rate Of Profit.
31. Cost Price and Profit
42. The Rate of Profit
53. The Relation of the Rate of Profit to the Rate of Surplus-Value
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64. The Effect of the Turn-Over on the Rate of Profit
75. Economies in the Employment of Constant Capital
8I. General Economies.
9II. Economies in the conditions of labor at the expense of the laborers.
10III. Economies in the Generation of Power, Transmission of Power, and Buildings.
11IV. Utilisation of the Excrements of Production.
12V. Economies Due to Inventions.
136. The Effect of Fluctuations in Price
14I. Fluctuations in the Price of Raw Materials, and their Direct Effects on the Rate of Profit.
15II. Appreciation, Depreciation, Release, and Tie-up of Capital.
16III. General Illustration. The Cotton Crisis of 1861-1865.
177. Additional Remarks
18Part 2 - Conversion of Profit into Average Profit
198. Different Composition of Capitals
209. Average Rate of Profit and Transformation of the Values of Commodities into Prices Of Production
2110. Market Prices and Market Values. Surplus-Profit
2211. Effects of General Fluctuations of Wages on Prices of Production
2312. Some After Remarks
24I. Causes Implying a Variation of the Price of Production.
25II. Price of Production of Commodities of Average Composition.
26III. Fluctuations for which the Capitalist makes Allowance.
27Part 3 - The Law of the Falling Tendency of the Rate of Profit
2813. The Theory of the Law
2914. Counteracting Causes
30I. Raising the Intensity of Exploitation.
31II. Depression of Wages Below their Value.
32III. Cheapening of the Elements of Constant Capital.
33IV. Relative Overpopulation.
34V. Foreign Trade.
35VI. The Increase of Stock Capital.
3615. Unraveling the Internal Contradictions of the Law
37I. General Remarks.
38II. Conflict between the Expansion of Production and the Creation of Values.
39III. Surplus of Capital and Surplus of Population.
40IV. Supplementary Remarks.
41Part 4 - Transformation of Commodity-Capital and Money-Capital into Commercial Capital and Financial Capital
4216. Commercial Capital
4317. Commercial Profit
4418. The Turn-Over of Merchant's Capital
4519. Financial Capital
4620. Historical Data Concerning Merchants' Capital
47Part 5 - Division of Profit into Interest and Profits of Enterprise
4821. The Interest-Bearing Capital.
4922. Division of Profit. Rate of Interest. Natural Rate of Interest
5023. Interest and Profit of Enterprise
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