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Capital
A Critique of Political Economy (Vol. I - IV)
Karl Marx
Author
Use the buttons below to link to the first page of any of the four volumes. Or, if you need to get to a specific sub-section, you can scroll to the section below for each volume's expanded table of contents.
Volume I: The Process of Production of Capital
Volume II: The Process of Circulation of Capital
Volume III: The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
Volume IV: Theories of Surplus-Value (draft)
Volume I: The Process of Production of Capital
Volume II: The Process of Circulation of Capital
Volume III: The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
Volume IV: Theories of Surplus-Value (draft)
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Table of Contents
Volume I
The Process of Production of Capital
Contents
Prefaces
Preface to the First German Edition (Marx, 1867)
Preface to the French Edition (Marx, 1872)
Afterword to the Second German Edition (1873)
Afterword to the French Edition (1875)
Preface to the Third German Edition (1883)
Preface to the English Edition (Engels, 1886)
Preface to the Fourth German Edition (Engels, 1890)
Part 1: Commodities and Money
Chapter 1: Commodities
Chapter 2: Exchange
Chapter 3: Money, Or the Circulation of Commodities
Part 2: Transformation of Money into Capital
Chapter 4: The General Formula for Capital
Chapter 5: Contradictions in the General Formula of Capital
Chapter 6: The Buying and Selling of Labour-Power
Part 3: The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value
Chapter 7: The Labour-Process and the Process of Producing Surplus-Value
Chapter 8: Constant Capital and Variable Capital
Chapter 9: The Rate of Surplus-Value
Chapter 10: The Working day
Chapter 11: Rate and Mass of Surplus-Value
Part 4: Production of Relative Surplus-Value
Chapter 12: The Concept of Relative Surplus-Value
Chapter 13: Co-operation
Chapter 14: Division of Labour and Manufacture
Chapter 15: Machinery and Modern Industry
Part 5: Production of Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value
Chapter 16: Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value
Chapter 17: Changes of Magnitude in the Price of Labour-Power and in Surplus-Value
Chapter 18: Various Formula for the rate of Surplus-Value
Part 6: Wages
Chapter 19: The Transformation of the Value (and Respective Price) of Labour-Power into Wages
Chapter 20: Time-Wages
Chapter 21: Piece Wages
Chapter 22: National Differences of Wages
Part 7: The Accumulation of Capital
Chapter 23: Simple Reproduction
Chapter 24: Conversion of Surplus-Value into Capital
Chapter 25: The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation
Part 8: Primitive Accumulation
Chapter 26: The Secret of Primitive Accumulation
Chapter 27: Expropriation of the Agricultural Population From the Land
Chapter 28: Bloody Legislation Against the Expropriated, from the End of the 15th Century. Forcing Down of Wages by Acts of Parliament
Chapter 29: Genesis of the Capitalist Farmer
Chapter 30: Reaction of the Agricultural Revolution on Industry. Creation of the Home-Market for Industrial Capital
Chapter 31: The Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist
Chapter 32: Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation
Chapter 33: The Modern Theory of Colonisation1
Table of Contents
Volume II
The Process of Circulation of Capital
Table of Contents
PREFACES
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Notes
Part I: The Metamorphoses of Capital and their Circuits
Chapter 1: The Circuit of Money Capital
Chapter 2: The Circuit of Productive Capital
Chapter 3: The Circuit of Commodity-Capital
Chapter 4: The Three Formulas of the Circuit
Chapter 5: The Time of Circulation[8]
Chapter 6: The Costs of Circulation
Part II: The Turnover of Capital
Chapter 7: The Turnover Time and the Number of Turnovers
Chapter 8: Fixed Capital and Circulating Capital
Chapter 9: The Aggregate Turnover of Advanced Capital, Cycles of Turnover
Notes
Chapter 10: Theories of Fixed and Circulating Capital. The Physiocrats and Adam Smith
Chapter 11: Theories of Fixed and Circulating Capital
Chapter 12: The Working Period
Chapter 13: The Time of Production
Chapter 14: The Time of Circulation
Chapter 15: Effect of the Time of Turnover on the Magnitude of Advanced Capital
Chapter 16: The Turnover of Variable Capital
Chapter 17: The Circulation of Surplus Value
Part III: The Reproduction and Circulation of the Aggregate Social Capital
Chapter 18: Introduction
Chapter 19: [35] Former Presentations of the Subject
Chapter 20: Simple Reproduction - Part 1
Chapter 20: Simple Reproduction - Part 2
Chapter 20: Simple Reproduction - Part 3
Chapter 20: Simple Reproduction - Part 4
Chapter 21: Accumulation and Reproduction on an Extended Scale - Part 1
Chapter 21: Accumulation and Reproduction on an Extended Scale - Part 2
Table of Contents
Volume III
The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
Contents
Preface
Part I. The Conversion of Surplus-Value into Profit and of the Rate of Surplus-Value into the Rate of Profit
Chapter 1. Cost-Price and profit
Chapter 2. The Rate of Profit
Chapter 3. The Relation of the Rate of Profit to the Rate of Surplus-Value
Chapter 4. The Effect of the Turnover on the Rate of Profit
Chapter 5. Economy in the Employment of Constant Capital
Chapter 6. The Effect of Price Fluctuation
Chapter 7. Supplementary Remarks
Part II. Conversion of Profit into Average Profit
Chapter 8. Different Compositions of Capitals in Different Branches of Production and Resulting Differences in Rates of Profit
Chapter 9. Formation of a General Rate of Profit (Average Rate of Profit) and Transformation of the Values of Commodities into Prices of Production
Chapter 10. Equalisation of the General Rate of Profit Through Competition. Market-Prices and Market-Values. Surplus-Profit
Chapter 11. Effects of General Wage Fluctuations on Prices of Production
Chapter 12. Supplementary Remarks
Part III. The Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall
Chapter 13. The Law As Such
Chapter 14. Counteracting Influences
Chapter 15. Exposition of the Internal Contradictions of the Law
Part IV. Conversion of Commodity-Capital and Money-Capital into Commercial Capital and Money-Dealing Capital (Merchant's Capital)
Chapter 16. Commercial Capital
Chapter 17. Commercial Profit
Chapter 18. The Turnover of Merchant's Capital. Prices.
Chapter 19. Money-Dealing Capital
Chapter 20. Historical Facts about Merchant's Capital
Part V. Division of Profit into Interest and Profit of Enterprise. Interest-Bearing Capital
Chapter 21. Interest-Bearing Capital
Chapter 22. Division of Profit. Rate of Interest. Natural Rate of Interest.
Chapter 23. Interest and Profit of Enterprise
Chapter 24. Externalization of the Relations of Capital in the Form of Interest-Bearing Capital
Chapter 25. Credit and Fictitious Capital
Chapter 26. Accumulation of Money-Capital. Its Influence on the Interest Rate
Chapter 27. The Role of Credit in Capitalist Production
Chapter 28. Medium of Circulation and Capital; Views of Tooke and Fullarton
Chapter 29. Component Parts of Bank Capital
Chapter 30. Money-Capital and Real Capital. I.
Chapter 31. Money Capital and Real Capital. II.
Chapter 32. Money Capital and Real Capital. III.
Chapter 33. The Medium of Circulation in the Credit System
Chapter 34. The Currency Principle and the English Bank Legislation of 1844
Chapter 35. Precious Metal and Rate of Exchange
Chapter 36. Pre-Capitalist Relationships
Part VI. Transformation of Surplus-Profit into Ground-Rent
Chapter 37. Introduction
Chapter 38. Differential Rent: General Remarks
Chapter 39. First Form of Differential Rent (Differential Rent I)
Chapter 40. Second Form of Differential Rent (Differential Rent II)
Chapter 41. Differential Rent II. First Case: Constant Price of Production
Chapter 42. Differential Rent II. Second Case: Falling Price of Production
Chapter 43. Differential Rent II. Third Case: Rising Price of Production
Chapter 44. Differential Rent Also on the Worst Cultivated Soil
Chapter 45. Absolute Ground-Rent
Chapter 46. Building Site Rent. Rent in Mining. Price of Land
Chapter 47. Genesis of Capitalist Ground-Rent
Part VII. Revenues and their Sources
Chapter 48. The Trinity Formula
Chapter 49. Concerning the Analysis of the Process of Production
Chapter 50. Illusions Created By Competition
Chapter 51. Distribution Relations and Production Relations
Chapter 52. Classes
Supplement by Frederick Engels
Introduction
Law of Value and Rate of Profit
The Stock Exchange
Engels’ Edition of the Third Volume of Capital and Marx’s Original Manuscript
1. Extant Knowledge of Engels’ Editing
2. An Overview of Engels’ Textual Modifications
3. Interpretatory Handicaps Caused by Engels’ Edition
4. Conclusions
References
Footnotes
Table of Contents
Volume IV
Theories of Surplus-Value
Theories of Surplus-Value[Volume IV of Capital]
Preface
Contents of the Manuscript Theories of Surplus-Value
PART I
[Chapter I] Sir James Steuart
[Chapter II] The Physiocrats
[Chapter III] Adam Smith
[Chapter IV] Theories of Productive and Unproductive Labour
[Chapter V] Necker
[Chapter VI] Quesnay’s Tableau Économique
[Chapter VII] Linguet
Addenda to PART I
PART II
[Chapter VIII] Herr Rodbertus. New Theory of Rent.
[Chapter IX] Notes on the History of the Discovery of the So-Called Ricardian Law of Rent.
[Chapter X] Ricardo’s and Adam Smith’s Theory of Cost-price (Refutation)
[Chapter XI] Ricardo’s Theory of Rent.
[Chapter XII] Tables of Differential Rent and Comment
[Chapter XIII] Ricardo’s Theory of Rent (Conclusion)
[Chapter XIV] Adam Smith’s Theory of Rent
[Chapter XV] Ricardo’s Theory of Surplus-Value
[Chapter XVI] Ricardo’s Theory of Profit
[Chapter XVII] Ricardo’s Theory of Accumulation and a Critique of it. (The Very Nature of Capital Leads to Crises)
[Chapter XVIII] Ricardo’s Miscellanea. John Barton
Addenda to PART II
PART III
[Chapter XIX] Thomas Robert Malthus
[Chapter XX] Disintegration of the Ricardian School
[Chapter XXI] Opposition to the Economists (Based on the Ricardian Theory)
[Chapter XXII] Ramsay
[Chapter XXIII] Cherbuliez
[Chapter XXIV] Richard Jones
Addenda to PART III Revenue and its Sources. Vulgar Political Economy
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