Das Kapital
Das Kapital is a written work created by philosopher Karl Marx first published on 14 September 1867 explaining capitalism and its issues such as values, commodity fetishism, exploitation and colonization.
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Karl Marx in 1875. Das Kapital was the culmination of his lifelong critique of political economy.
Dialectical unfolding of core categories in Das Kapital, Volume I, as charted by David Harvey.[1] Marx's method involves revealing internal contradictions that propel the argument forward.
Page from Marx's manuscript notes for Das Kapital, c. 1860
Depiction of Covent Garden Market in London by Phoebus Levin, 1864. Marx analysed the commodity as the elementary form of wealth in capitalist societies, where myriad goods are exchanged in bustling marketplaces.[2]
British gold sovereign featuring Queen Victoria, 1842. Marx discussed gold as the primary money commodity in his time, serving as a universal equivalent and measure of value.[3]
The floor of the New York Stock Exchange in 1908. The circulation M-C-M' (buying in order to sell dearer) is the general formula for capital, a process central to financial markets.[4]
Depiction of power loom weaving in a British cotton mill, 1835. The textile industry, a key focus for Marx, exemplified the capitalist labour process where absolute surplus-value was extracted by prolonging the working day.[5]
Depiction of a machine factory in Chemnitz, 1868. The development of machinery and large-scale industry was central to Marx's analysis of relative surplus-value, generated by increasing labour productivity to shorten necessary labour-time.[6]
Adolph Menzel's Iron Rolling Mill (1875), depicting the intense labour process in 19th-century heavy industry, a site for the extraction of both absolute and relative surplus-value
Gustave Doré's Over London by Rail (1872), illustrating the vast urban and industrial expansion characteristic of capitalist accumulation in Marx's era
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"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 6 July 2013. Retrieved 19 May 2017.[1]
- ↑ Harvey 2018, p. 115.
- ↑ Harvey 2018, p. 27.
- ↑ Harvey 2018, pp. 43, 55.
- ↑ Harvey 2018, p. 96.
- ↑ Harvey 2018, pp. 147–148.
- ↑ Harvey 2018, p. 201.