Marx's Capital II, The Circulation of Capital (original) (raw)

The Circulation of Capital Essays on Volume Two of Marx's Capital

St. Martin's Press , Macmillan Press eBooks, 1998

General Introduction because Marx felt embarrassed that he had not y.et produ~ed the promised book on the circulation of c,aP.ita.l. ObvlOusl,Y th!s p~ra graph is also a remnant of the famous. m~s~mg chapter on the 1I~ mediate results of commodity production (mcluded as an appendix to the 1976 English translation of Book I-compare 1;" 97?): Thus Marx indicates the duality of capitalist production: It IS a contradictory process of producing useful objects (labour process) .an~ at the same time of producing value and surplus value (valonzatlOn process). The latter, however, dominates the former. (See .Re.uten & Williams, 1989: ch. 1; and the chapter he~e by Murray pomtmg out that the 'real subsumption' of labour mdeed affects the labour process and the kind of commodities being prod~ced). Moseley in this volume points out that Marx, with his Reproduction Scheme; of part Three, 'and against Smith's 'dogma' in t~is respect, shows how the annual production indeed reproduces capital.

The Culmination of Capital Essays on Volume Three of Marx's Capital

2002

Marx's Capital III , The Culmination of Capital: General Introduction G.Reuten Class, Capital, and Crisis P.Mattick Capital in General and Marx's Capital C.J.Arthur Hostile Brothers: Marx's Theory of the Distribution of Surplus-Value in Volume III of Capital F.Moseley Transformation and the Monetary Circuit: Marx as a Monetary Theorist of Production R.Bellofiore Capital, Competition and Many Capitals C.J.Arthur Surplus Profits from Innovation: A Missing Level in Capital III ? T.Smith The Rate of Profit Cycle and the Opposition between Managerial and Finance Capital G.Reuten The Credit System M.Campbell Rent and Landed Property M.Campbell The Illusion of the Economic: The Trinity Formula and the 'Religion of Everyday Life': P.Murray Abstracts of the Chapters Notes on the Contributors Author Index Subject Index

Capital. A Critique of Political Economy. BY C.Marx

Vol 1, pp.543 First published: in German in 1867, English edition first published in 1887; Source: First English edition of 1887 (4th German edition changes included as indicated) with some modernisation of spelling; Publisher: Progress Publishers, Moscow, USSR; Translated: Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling, edited by Frederick Engels; Transcribed: Zodiac, Hinrich Kuhls, Allan Thurrott, Bill McDorman, Bert Schultz and Martha Gimenez (1995-1996)

An Analysis of Karl Marx's Capital: A Critique of Political Economy

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CAPITAL: A Critique of Political Economy (Volume 1) by Karl Marx

Penguin books, 1976

KARL MARX was born at Trier in 1818 of a German-Jewish family converted to Christianity. As a student in Bonn and Berlin he was influenced by Hegel's dialectic, but he later reacted against idealist philosophy and began to develop his theory of historical materialism. He related the state of society to its economic foundations and mode of production, and recommended armed revolution on the part of the proletariat. In Paris in 1844 Marx met Friedrich Engels, with whom he formed a lifelong partnership. Together they prepared the Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) as a statement of the Communist League's policy. In 1848 Marx returned to Germany and took an active part in the unsuccessful democratic revolution. The following year he arrived in England as a refugee and lived in London until his death in 1883. Helped financially by Engels, Marx and his family nevertheless lived in great poverty. After years of research (mostly carried out in the British Museum), he published in 1867 the first volume of his great work, Capital. From 1864 to 1872 Marx played a leading role in the International Working Men's Association, and his last years saw the development of the first mass workers' parties founded on avowedly Marxist principles. Besides the two posthumous volumes of Capital compiled by Engels, Karl Marx's other writings

33 Lessons on Capital: Reading Marx Politically

Thirty-Three Lessons on Capital: Reading Marx Politically, 2019

This manuscript was the basis of the Pluto Press book by the same title. Other than pagination, the main differences between this manuscript and the published book are 1) one is digital, one is hard copy, 2) the digital version can be searched, 3) the hard copy version has a detailed index. Both manuscript and published book were revised versions of my online, illustrated "study guide" to Volume I of CAPITAL, accessible at http://la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver/357k/357ksg.html

The Writing of Capital: Genesis and Structure of Marx’s Critique of Political Economy

2018

The debate on the structure of Marx’s Capital, and on the probable explanations for the changes he made to the initial ‘six books plan’, has always been a relevant topic in Marxist studies. This article provides a more exhaustive account of the genesis of Capital, on the basis of a revisitation of Marx’s intellectual biography during the 1860s, and of the publication of all preparatory manuscripts of Marx’s magnum opus, recently appeared in the MEGA2, the historical-critical edition of the complete works of Marx and Engels.

Review: Michael Heinrich, How to Read Marx’s Capital: Commentary and Explanations on the Beginning Chapters

Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, 2022

In the preface to the first edition of Capital Volume I, Karl Marx wrote ‘Beginnings are always difficult in all sciences. The understanding of the first chapter, especially the section that contains the analysis of commodities, will therefore present the greatest difficulty’ (Marx 1990: 89). It is no wonder then that in the face of this difficult beginning, Louis Althusser famously encouraged the first-time reader to put Part I on ‘Commodities and Money’ aside and only return to it after the end of reading the rest of the book. And even then, to do so ‘with infinite caution, knowing that it will always be extremely difficult to understand, even after several readings of the other Parts, without the help of a certain number of deeper explanations’ (Althusser 1977: 85). In the anglophone world, many readers reached for David Harvey’s A Companion to Marx’s Capital for such help. But this companion, its importance notwithstanding, exhibits what Nicola Taylor and Riccardo Bellofiore (2004: 4n4) call the ‘immaturity’ of English-language scholarship on Marx which to this day continues to remain in the dark about primary and secondary literature emerging from the historical-critical edition, the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA2).

Capital as ‘abstraction in action’ and economic rhythms in Marx

2020

Capital, as self-valorising value, abstraction in action, Hegelian syllogism or selforganisation of economic rhythms oriented to the unique goal of profit production, is based on the reversal of subject and object in capitalist society. The producer is subjugated to their own social relationship that acts as a subject and treats them as its object. The fetishism of social reproduction manifests itself more clearly in structural crises, in which the system persists only through accelerated social regression.