The Essential Karl Marx
Capital, Communist Manifesto, Wage Labor and Capital, Critique of the Gotha Program, Wages, Price and Profit, Theses on FeuerbachBy Karl Marx, Florence Kelley, N.I. Stone
Length128h
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The Essential Karl Marx assembles a compelling array of writings that encapsulate the core tenets of Marxist thought while showcasing a myriad of literary forms from essays to critiques. This anthology adeptly illuminates the revolutionary ideas of Karl Marx against the backdrop of 19th-century socio-economic upheaval. Standout pieces ponder concepts such as class struggle and capitalist critique, without losing sight of the intricate interplays that underpin Marx's broader philosophical inquiry. This diverse collection not only underscores Marx's intellectual legacy but also echoes with the resounding implications of his works on modern social structures. The contributing voices of Florence Kelley and N.I. Stone provide rich, contextual layers by engaging with Marx's ideologies through the lens of social reform and economic thought, respectively. Florence Kelley's involvement with labor rights and gender equality intertwines seamlessly with Marx's critique of industrial capitalism, while N.I. Stone's economic analysis enriches the discourse on Marxism. Their collective backgrounds epitomize the intersection of advocacy and economic expertise, drawing linkages to historical movements like Marxism's role in 20th-century social reform agendas. This anthology is a scholarly treasure for readers eager to traverse an intellectual journey that unifies disparate yet harmonious views on socio-economic paradigms. It offers a unique vantage into the evolution of thought provoked by Marx's theories while cultivating dialogues on equity and disparity. Engaging with this collection promises a profound educational experience, where readers gain multidimensional insights into the tenets of Marxism and their enduring relevance in contemporary discussions.
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GenrePolitics and Government, Literary Classics
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Table of contents
1The Essential Karl Marx
146I. Simple Reproduction
2Political Works
147II. Accumulation and Reproduction on an Enlarged Scale
3Preface
148III. Accumulation of Money
4Manifesto of the Communist Party.
149IV. Reserve Funds
5I. Bourgeois and Proletarians.3
1503. The Circulation of Commodity-Capital
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6II. Proletarians and Communists.
1514. The Three Diagrams of the Process of Circulation
7III. Socialist and Communist Literature.
1525. The Time of Circulation
8IV. Position of the Communists in Relation to the Various Existing Opposition Parties.
153I. Genuine Expenses of Circulation.
9Theses on Feuerbach
154II. Expenses of Storage.
10Translator's Preface
155III. Expenses of Transportation
11I
1567. The Period and Number of Turn-Overs
12II
157I. Distinctions of Form
13III
158II. Composition, Reproduction, Repair, and Accumulation of Fixed Capital
14IV
1599. The Total Turn-Over of Advanced Capital
15V
16010. Theories of Fixed and Circulating Capital. The Physiocrats and Adam Smith
16VI
16111. Theories of Fixed and Circulating Capital. Ricardo
17VII
16212. The Working Period
18Chapter I
16313. The Time of Production
19Chapter II
16414. The Time of Circulation
20Chapter III
165I. The Working Period Equal to the Period of Circulation
21Chapter IV
166II. The Working Period Greater Than the Period of Circulation
22Chapter V
167III. The Working Period Smaller Than the Circulation Period
23Chapter VI
168IV. Conclusions
24Introduction
169V. The Effect of a Change of Prices
25The Begining of the Franco-Prussian War
170I. The Annual Rate of Surplus-Value
26Prussian Occupation of France
171II. The Turn-Over of the Individual Variable Capital
27France Capitulates and the Government of Thiers
172III. The Turn-Over of the Variable Capital, Considered from the Point of View of Society
28Paris Workers' Revolution and Thiers' Reactionary Massacres
173I. Simple Reproduction
29The Paris Commune
174II. Accumulation and Reproduction on an Enlarged Scale
30The Fall of Paris
175I. The Object of the Analysis
31Foreword
176II. The Role of Money-Capital
32Letter to Bracke
177I. The Physiocrats
33Part I
178II. Adam Smith
34Part II
179III. Smith Resolves Exchange-Value into V Plus S
35Part III
180IV. The Constant Portion of Capital.
36Part IV
181V. Capital and Revenue in Adam Smith
37Appendix
182VI. The Economists after Smith
38Introduction
183I. The Formulation of the Question.
39Chapter 1 Preliminary
184II. The Two Departments of Social Production
40Chapter 2 What Are Wages?
185III. The Transactions between the Two Departments
41Chapter 3 By What is the Price of a Commodity Determined?
186IV. Necessities of Life and Articles of Luxury
42Chapter 4 By What Are Wages Determined?
187V. The Promotion of the Transactions by the Circulation of Money
43Chapter 5 The Nature and Growth of Capital
188VI. The Constant Capital of Department I
44Chapter 6 Relation of Wage-labor to Capital
189VII. Variable Capital and Surplus-Value in Both Departments
45Chapter 7 The General Law That Determines the Rise and Fall of Wages and Profits
190VIII. The Constant Capital in both Departments
46Chapter 8 The Interests of Capital and Wage-labor Are Diametrically Opposed -- Effect of Growth of Productive Capital on Wages
191IX. A Retrospect on Adam Smith, Storch, and Ramsay
47Chapter 9 Effect of Capitalist Competition on the Capitalist Class, The Middle Class, and The Working Class
192X. Variable Capital and Wages
48Free Trade
193XI. Reproduction of the Fixed Capital
49Preliminary
194XII. The Reproduction of the Money Supply
50I. Production and Wages
195XIII. Destutt De Tracy's Theory of Reproduction
51II. Production, Wages, Profits
196I. Accumulation in Department I
52III. Wages and Currency
197II. Accumulation in Department II
53IV. Supply and Demand
198III. Diagrammatic Presentation of Accumulation
54V. Wages and Prices
199IV. Concluding Remarks
55VI. Value and Labour
2001. Cost Price and Profit
56VII. Labouring Power
2012. The Rate of Profit
57VIII. Production of Surplus Value
2023. The Relation of the Rate of Profit to the Rate of Surplus-Value
58IX. Value of Labour
2034. The Effect of the Turn-Over on the Rate of Profit
59X. Profit is Made by Selling a Commodity at its Value
204I. General Economies.
60XI. The Different Parts into Which Surplus Value is Decomposed
205II. Economies in the conditions of labor at the expense of the laborers.
61XII. General Relation of Profits, Wages and Prices
206III. Economies in the Generation of Power, Transmission of Power, and Buildings.
62XIII. Main Cases of Attempts at Raising Wages or Resisting Their Fall
207IV. Utilisation of the Excrements of Production.
63XIV. The Struggle Between Capital and Labour and its Results
208V. Economies Due to Inventions.
64Author’s Preface: First German Edition
209I. Fluctuations in the Price of Raw Materials, and their Direct Effects on the Rate of Profit.
65Editor’s Preface: First English Translation
210II. Appreciation, Depreciation, Release, and Tie-up of Capital.
66I. The Two Factors of a Commodity: Use-Value and Value
211III. General Illustration. The Cotton Crisis of 1861-1865.
67II. The Two-fold Character of the Labour Embodied in Commodities
2127. Additional Remarks
68III. The Form of Value or Exchange-Value
2138. Different Composition of Capitals
69IV. The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof
2149. Average Rate of Profit and Transformation of the Values of Commodities into Prices Of Production
702. Exchange
21510. Market Prices and Market Values. Surplus-Profit
71I. The Measure of Values
21611. Effects of General Fluctuations of Wages on Prices of Production
72II. The Medium of Circulation
217I. Causes Implying a Variation of the Price of Production.
73III. Money
218II. Price of Production of Commodities of Average Composition.
744. The General Formula for Capital
219III. Fluctuations for which the Capitalist makes Allowance.
755. Contradictions in the General Formula of Capital
22013. The Theory of the Law
766. The Buying and Selling of Labour-Power
221I. Raising the Intensity of Exploitation.
77I. The Labour-Process or the Production of Use-Values
222II. Depression of Wages Below their Value.
78II. The Production of Surplus-Value
223III. Cheapening of the Elements of Constant Capital.
798. Constant Capital and Variable Capital
224IV. Relative Overpopulation.
80I. The Degree of Exploitation of Labour-Power
225V. Foreign Trade.
81II. The Representation of the Components of the Value of the Product
226VI. The Increase of Stock Capital.
82III. Senior’s “Last Hour”
227I. General Remarks.
83IV. Surplus-Produce
228II. Conflict between the Expansion of Production and the Creation of Values.
84I. The Limits of the Working day
229III. Surplus of Capital and Surplus of Population.
85II. The Greed for Surplus-Labor, Manufacturer and Boyard
230IV. Supplementary Remarks.
86III. Branches of English Industry without Legal Limits to Exploitation
23116. Commercial Capital
87IV. Day and Night Work. The Relay System
23217. Commercial Profit
88V. Compulsory Laws for the Extension of the Working Day (Mid 14th- End 17th Century)
23318. The Turn-Over of Merchant's Capital
89VI. Compulsory Limitation by Law of the Working-Time
23419. Financial Capital
90VII. Reaction of the English Factory Acts on Other Countries
23520. Historical Data Concerning Merchants' Capital
9111. Rate and Mass of Surplus-Value
23621. The Interest-Bearing Capital.
9212. The Concept of Relative Surplus-Value
23722. Division of Profit. Rate of Interest. Natural Rate of Interest
9313. Co-operation
23823. Interest and Profit of Enterprise
94I. Two-Fold Origin of Manufacture
23924. Externalisation of the Relations of Capital in the Form of Interest-Bearing Capital
95II. The Detail Labourer and his Implements
24025. Credit and Fictitious Capital
96III. The Two Fundamental Forms of Manufacture
24126. Accumulation of Money-Capital. Its Influence On The Rate Of Interest
97IV. Division of Labour in Manufacture, and Division of Labour in Society
24227. The Role of Credit in Capitalist Production
98V. The Capitalistic Character of Manufacture
24328. The Medium of Circulation and Capital. Tooke's and Fullarton's Conception.
99I. The Development of Machinery
24429. The Composition of Banking Capital.
100II. The Value Transferred by Machinery to the Product
24530. Money-Capital and Actual Capital - I
101III. The Proximate Effects of Machinery on the Workman
24631. Money-Capital and Actual Capital - II
102IV. The Factory
24732. Money-Capital and Actual Capital - III
103V. The Strife between Workman and Machine
24833. The Currency under the Credit System.
104VI. The Theory of Compensation as Regards the Workpeople Displaced by Machinery
24934. The Currency Principle and the English Bank Laws of 1844.
105VII. Repulsion and Attraction of Workpeople by the Factory System
250I. The Movements of the Gold Reserve.
106VIII. Revolution Effected in Manufacture, Handicrafts, and Domestic Industry
251II. The Rate of Exchange.
107IX. The Factory Acts
252III. Rate of Exchange with Asia.
108X. Modern Industry and Agriculture
253IV. England's Balance of Trade.
10916. Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value
25436. Precapitalist Conditions.
110I. Length of the Working day and Intensity of Labour Constant
25537. Preliminaries
111II. Working Day Constant
25638. Differential Rent
112III. Productiveness and Intensity of Labour Constant
25739. The First Form of Differential Rent
113IV. Simultaneous Variations in the Duration, Productiveness, and Intensity of Labour
25840. The Second Form of Differential Rent
11418. Various Formula for the rate of Surplus-Value
25941. First Case: Constant Price of Production
11519. The Transformation of the Value and Respective Price of Labour-Power into Wages
260I. The Productivity of the Additional Investment of Capital Remains the Same.
11620. Time-Wages
261II. The Rate of Productivity of the Additional Capitals Decreases.
11721. Piece Wages
262III. The Rate of Productivity of the Additional Capitals Increases.
11822. National Differences of Wages
26343. Third Case: Rising Price of Production
11923. Simple Reproduction
26444. Differential Rent Even Upon the Worst Soil under Cultivation
120I. Capitalist Production on a Progressively Increasing Scale
26545. Absolute Ground-Rent
121II. Erroneous Conception
26646. Building Lot Rent. Mining Rent. Price of Land
122III. Separation of Surplus-Value into Capital and Revenue
267I. Introductory Remarks.
123IV. Circumstances that Determine the Amount of Accumulation
268II. Labor Rent.
124V. The So-Called Labour Fund
269III. Rent in Kind.
125I. The Increased Demand for Labour Power that Accompanies Accumulation
270IV. Money Rent.
126II. Relative Diminution of the Variable Part of Capital
271V. Share Farming (Metairie System) and Small Peasants' Property.
127III. Progressive Production of a Relative Surplus Population or Industrial Reserve Army
272I.
128IV. Different Forms of the Relative Surplus Population
273II.
129V. Illustrations of the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation (pt. 1)
274III.
130V. Illustrations of the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation (pt. 2)
27549. A Contribution to the Analysis of the Process of Production
13126. The Secret of Primitive Accumulation
27650. The Semblance of Competition
13227. Expropriation of the Agricultural Population from the Land
27751. Conditions of Distribution and Production
13328. Bloody Legislation against the Expropriated
27852. The Classes
13429. Genesis of the Capitalist Farmer
279Author’s Preface
13530. Reaction of the Agricultural Revolution on Industry
280BOOK I. Capital in general
13631. The Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist
281A. Notes on the History of the Theory of Commodities
13732. Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation
282Chapter II. Money or Simple Circulation
13833. The Modern Theory of Colonisation (pt. 1)
283B. Theories of the Unit of Measure of Money (pt. 1)
13933. The Modern Theory of Colonisation (pt. 2)
284B. Theories of the Unit of Measure of Money (pt. 2)
14033. The Modern Theory of Colonisation (pt. 3)
285C. Theories of the Medium of Circulation and of Money
14133. The Modern Theory of Colonisation (pt. 4)
2861. Production in General
142I. First Stage. M-C
2872. The General Relation of Production to Distribution, Exchange, and Consumption
143II. Second Stage. Functions of Productive Capital
2883. The Method of Political Economy
144III. Third Stage. C'-M'
2894. Production, Means of Production, and Conditions of Production, the Relations of Production and Distribution.164 The Connection Between Form of State and Property on the One Hand and Relations of Production and Distribution(1) on the Other. Legal Relations. Family Relations.
145IV. The Rotation as a Whole
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