Capital
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"Money is the alienated essence of man’s labour and life; and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it." From the concepts of commodities and money, surplus-value of labour, the accumulation of capital, and its process of circulation, to the conversion of surplus value into profit and transformation of surplus-profit into ground rent, Karl Marx’s Capital presents his theory of the capitalist system. Regarded as a significant work of the modern economic thought, this magnum opus is a comprehensive critique on the political economy. This edition contains all the three volumes of the Capital. Out of the three, only the first volume was published by Marx during his lifetime. The remaining two were prepared by Friedrich Engels using Marx’s notes. CAPITAL HAS BEEN TRANSLATED INTO ALL THE MAJOR LANGUAGES AND THE INFLUENTIAL THEORIES OF MARX CONTINUE TO ACQUIRE READERSHIP THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. Optimized for digital reading, this ebook offers a smooth, immersive experience on any device.
Karl Marx
Karl Marx was born in 1818, in the Rhenish city of Trier, the son of a successful lawyer. He studied law and philosophy at the universities of Bonn and Berlin, completing his doctorate in 1841. In Paris three years later, Marx was introduced to the study of political economy by a former fellow student, Frederick Engels. In 1848 they collaborated in writing The Communist Manifesto. Expelled from Prussia in the same year, Marx took up residence first in Paris and then in London where, in 1867 he published his magnum opus Capital. A co-founder of the International Workingmen's Association in 1864, Marx died in London in 1883.
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