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01 - Editor's Preface -- To the First English Translation
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Capital - A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
by Karl Marx
Capital, Volume I is the first of three volumes in Karl Marx’s monumental work, Das Kapital, and the only volume to be published during his lifetime, in 1867. Marx’s aim in Capital, Volume I is to uncover and explain the laws specific to the capitalist mode of production and of the class struggles rooted in these capitalist social relations of production. Marx said himself that his aim was “to bring a science [i.e. political economy] by criticism to the point where it can be dialectically represented”, and in this way to “reveal the law of motion of modern society”. By showing how capitalist development was the precursor of a new, socialist mode of production, he aimed to provide a scientific foundation for the modern labour movement. In preparation for his book, he studied the economic literature available in his time for a period of twelve years, mainly in the British Museum in London.
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02 - Author's Preface -- I. To the First Edition
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03 - Author's Preface -- II. To the Second Edition
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04 - The two Factors of a Commodity; Use Value and Value (the Substance of value and the magnitude of value)
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05 - The Twofold Character of the Labour embodied in Commodities
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06 - Introduction and Elementary or Accidental Form of Value
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07 - Total or Expanded Form of Value
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08 - The General Form of Value and The Money Form
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09 - The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret thereof
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10 - Commodities and Money Exchange
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11 - Money, or the Circulation of Commodities - The Measure of Values
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12 - The Medium of Circulation - The Metamorphosis of Commodities
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13 - The Currency of Money
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14 - Coin and symbols of value
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15 - Money - Introduction and Hoarding
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16 - Means of Payment
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17 - Universal Money
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18 - The General Formula for Capital
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19 - Contradictions in the General Formula of Capital
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20 - The Buying and Selling of Labour-Power
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21 - The Labour-Process or the Production of use-values
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22 - The Production of Surplus-Value
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23 - Constant Capital and Variable Capital
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24 - The Degree of Exploration of Labour-Power
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25 - The Representation of the Components of the Value of the Product by Corresponding Proportional Parts of the Product Itself
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26 - The Rate of Surplus-Value - Senior's "Last Hour"
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27 - Surplus-Produce
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28 - The Limits of the Working-Day
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29 - The Greed for Surplus-Labour. Manufacturer and Boyard
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30 - Branches of English Industry Without Legal Limits to Exploitation
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31 - Day and Night Work. The Relay System.
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32 - The Struggle for a Normal Working-Day. Compulsory Laws for the Extension of the Working-Day
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33 - Compulsory Limitation by Law of the Working-Time. The English Factory Acts, 1833 to 1864
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34 - Re-action of the English Factory Acts on Other Countries
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35 - Rate and Mass of Surplus Value
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36 - The Concept of Relative Surplus-Value
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37 - Production of Relative Surplus Value - Co-Operation
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38 - Two-Fold Origin of Manufacture
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39 - The Detail Labourer and his Implements
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40 - The Two Fundamental Forms of Manufacture - Heterogeneous Manufacture, Serial Manufacture
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41 - Division of Labour in Manufacture, and Division of Labour in Society
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42 - The Capitalistic Character of Manufacture
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43 - The Development of Machinery
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44 - The Value Transferred by Machinery to the Product
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45 - The Proximate Effects of Machinery on the Workman Part 1
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46 - The Proximate Effects of Machinery on the Workman Part 2
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47 - Machinery and Modern Industry - The Factory
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48 - The Strife Between Workman and Machine
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49 - The Theory of Compensation as Regards the Workpeople Displaced by Machinery
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50 - Repulsion and Attraction Of Workpeople by the Factory System. Crises in the Cotton Trade
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51 - Revolution Effected in Manufacture, Handicrafts, and Domestic Industry by Modern Industry
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52 - The Factory Acts Sanitary and Educational Clauses of the Same Their General Extension in England
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53 - Modern Industry and Agriculture
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54 - Absolute and Relative Surplus Value
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55 - Changes Of Magnitude in the Price of Labour Power and in Surplus Value
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56 - Various Formulae for the Rate of Surplus Value
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57 - The Transformation of the Value (and Respectively the Price) of Labour Power into Wages
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58 - Time Wages
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59 - Piece Wages
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60 - National Differences of Wages
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61 - Simple Reproduction
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62 - Capitalist Production on a Progressively Increasing Scale
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63 - Erroneous Conception, by Political Economy, of Reproduction on a Progressively Increasing Scale
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64 - Separation of Surplus Value into Capital and Revenue. The Abstinence Theory
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65 - Degree of Exploitation of Labor Power
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66 - The So-called Labour Fund
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67 - The Increased Demand for Labour Power that Accompanies Accumulation, the Composition of Capital Remaining the Same
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68 - Relative Diminution of the Variable Part of Capital Simultaneously with the Progress of Accumulation
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69 - Progressive Production of a Relative Surplus Population or Industrial Reserve Army
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70 - Different Forms of the Relative Surplus Population. The General Law of Capitalistic Accumulation
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71 - Illustrations of the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation Part 1-3
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72 - Illustrations of the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation Part 4
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73 - Illustrations of the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation Part 5
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74 - Illustrations of the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation Part 6
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75 - The Secret of Primitive Accumulation
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76 - Expropriation of the Agricultural Population from the Land
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77 - Bloody Legislation Against the Expropriated, from the End of the 15th Century. Forcing down of Wages by Acts of Parliament
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78 - Genesis of the Capitalist Farmer
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79 - Reaction of the Agricultural Revolution on Industry. Creation of the Home Market for Industrial Capital
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80 - Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist
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81 - Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation
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82 - The Modern Theory of Colonisation
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