In Das Kapital (1867), Marx proposes that the motivating force of capitalism is in the exploitation of labor, whose unpaid work is the ultimate source of 展开

Capital, Volume I
Das Kapital, Volume I (1867) is a critical analysis of political economy, meant to reveal the contradictions of the capitalist mode of production, how it was the precursor of the socialist mode of production 展开

At the time of his death (1883), Marx had prepared the manuscript for Das Kapital, Volume IV, a critical history of theories of surplus value of … 展开

In 2017, the historian Gareth Stedman Jones wrote in the Books and Arts section of the scientific journal Nature:
What is extraordinary about Das Kapital is that it offers a still … 展开

The purpose of Das Kapital (1867) was a scientific foundation for the politics of the modern labour movement. The analyses were meant "to bring a science, by criticism, to the point where it can be dialectically represented" and so "reveal the law of motion of … 展开

The first translated publication of Das Kapital was in the Russian Empire in March 1872. It was the first foreign publication with the … 展开

• Accumulation by dispossession
• Analytical Marxism
• Étienne Balibar
• Eduard Bernstein
• G. A. Cohen 展开