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.

"Capital" by Karl Marx

Das Kapital Media

Karl Marx in 1875. Das Kapitalcode: de is deprecated was the culmination of his lifelong critique of political economy.
Dialectical unfolding of core categories in Das Kapitalcode: de is deprecated , Volume I, as conceptualized by David Harvey.^[1] Marx's method involves revealing internal contradictions that propel the argument forward.
Depiction of Covent Garden Market in London by Phoebus Levin, 1864. Marx analyzed 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]
Adolph Menzel's Iron Rolling Mill (1875), depicting the intense labor process in 19th-century heavy industry, a site for the extraction of both absolute and relative surplus-value.
Power loom weaving in a 19th-century textile factory. The introduction of machinery was a key method for producing relative surplus-value by increasing labor productivity.^[5]
Gustave Doré's Over London by Rail (1872), illustrating the vast urban and industrial expansion characteristic of capitalist accumulation in Marx's era.
Thomas Faed's The Last of the Clan (1865), depicting emigrants from the Highland Clearances in Scotland. The clearances are an example of the forcible expropriation of the agricultural population from the land, a key aspect of primitive accumulation described by Marx.^[6]
Diagram of the British slave ship Brookes (1788). Marx identified the slave trade as a significant component of primitive accumulation, providing wealth for early capitalist development.^[7]