Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1

ISBN-13: 9780140445688 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 1152 str.

Karl Marx

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The first volume of a political treatise that changed the world

One of the most notorious works of modern times, as well as one of the most influential, Capital is an incisive critique of private property and the social relations it generates. Living in exile in England, where this work was largely written, Marx drew on a wide-ranging knowledge of its society to support his analysis and create fresh insights. Arguing that capitalism would cause an ever-increasing division in wealth and welfare, he predicted its abolition and replacement by a system with common ownership of the means of production. Capital rapidly acquired readership among the leaders of social democratic parties, particularly in Russia in Germany, and ultimately throughout the world, to become a work described by Marx friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels as "the Bible of the working class."

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Capital Introduction by Ernest Mandel
Translator's Preface
Preface to the First Edition
Postface to the Second Edition
Preface to the French Edition
Postface to the French Edition
Preface to the Third Edition (by Engels)
Preface to the English Edition (by Engels)
Preface to the Fourth Edition (by Engels)
BOOK I: THE PROCESS OF PRODUCTION OF CAPITAL

Part One: Commodities and Money

Chapter 1: The Commodity
1. The Two Factors of the Commodity: Use-Value and Value (Substance of VAlue, Magnitude of Value)
2. The Dual Character of the Labour Embodied in Commodities
3. The Value-Form, or Exchange-Value
(a) The Simple, Isolated, or Accidental Form of Value
(1) The two poles of the expression of value: the relative form of value and the equivalent form
(2) The relative form of value
(i) The content of the relative form of value
(ii) The quantitative determinacy of the relative form of value
(iii) The equivalent form
(iv) The simple form of value considered as a whole
(b) The Total or Expanded Form of Value
(1) The expanded relative form of value
(2) The particular equivalent form
(3) Defects of the total or expanded form of value
(c) The General Form of Value
(1) The changed character of the form of value
(2) The development of the relative and equivalent forms of value: their interdependence
(3) The transition from the general form of value to the money form
(d) The Money Form
4. The Fetishism of the Commodity and Its Secret

Chapter 2: The Process of Exchange

Chapter 3: Money, or the Circulation of Commodities
1. The Measure of Values
2. The Means of Circulation
(a) The Metamorphosis of Commodities
(b) The Circulation of Money
(c) Coin. The Symbol of Value

3. Money
(a) Hoarding
(b) Means of Payment
(c) World Money

PART TWO: THE TRANSFORMATION OF MONEY INTO CAPITAL

Chapter 4: The General Formula for Capital

Chapter 5: Contradictions in the General Formula

Chapter 6: The Sale and Purchase of Labour-Power

PART THREE: THE PRODUCTION OF ABSOLUTE SURPLUS-VALUE

Chapter 7: The Labour Process and the Valorization Process
1. The Labour Process
2. The Valorization Process

Chapter 8: Constant Capital and Variable Capital

Chapter 9: The Rate of Surplus-Value
1. The Degree of Exploitation of Labour-Power
2. The Representation of the Value of the Product by Corresponding Proportional Parts of the Product
3. Senior's "Last Hour"
4. The Surplus Product

Chapter 10: The Working Day
1. The Limits of the Working Day
2. The Voracious Appetite for Surplus Labour. Manufacturer and Boyar
3. Branches of English Industry without Legal Limits to Exploitation
4. Day Work and Night Work. The Shift System
5. The Struggle for a Normal Working Day. Laws for the Compulsory Extension of the Working Day, from the Middle of the Fourteenth to the End of the Seventeenth Century
6. The Struggle for a Normal Working Day. Laws for the Compulsory Limitation of Working Hours. The English Factory Legislation of 1833-64
7. The Struggle for a Normal Working Day. Impact of the English Factory Legislation on Other Countries

Chapter 11: The Rate and Mass of Surplus-Value

PART FOUR: THE PRODUCTION OF RELATIVE SURPLUS-VALUE

Chapter 12: The Concept of Relative Surplus-Value

Chapter 13: Co-operation

Chapter 14: The Division of Labour and Manufacture
1. The Dual Origin of Manufacture
2. The Specialized Worker and His Tools
3. The Two Fundamental Forms of Manufacture - Heterogeneous and Organic
4. The Division of Labour in Manufacture, and the Division of Labour in Society
5. The Capitalist Character of Manufacture

Chapter 15: Machinery and Large-Scale Industry
1. The Development o

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KARL MARX was a German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, communist, and revolutionary, whose ideas played a significant role in the development of modern communism. Born in Trier, Germany, Marx Studied law and philosophy at University. Due to his political writings, he was forced to live in exile in London, where he continued to develop his thought in collaboration with German thinker Friedrich Engels and publish his writings. His best-known titles are the 1848?pamphlet?The Communist Manifesto?and the three-volume?Das Kapital?(1867-1883). Marx's political and philosophical thought had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic and political history