Karl Marx In 1867, the first volume of "Das Kapital" was published, a work which analysed the capitalist process of production. Here Marx elaborated his labour theory of value, which had been influenced by Thomas Hodgskin. Marx acknowledged Hodgskin's "admirable work" "Labour Defended against the Claims of Capital" at more than one point in "Capital." Indeed, Marx quoted Hodgskin as recognising the alienation of labour that occurred under modern capitalist production. No longer was there any "natural reward of individual labour. Each labourer produces only some part of a whole, and each part having no value or utility of itself, there is
The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx "", identified "The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx" as a classic. The philosopher Eugene Kamenka praised Avineri's discussion of Marx's relation to Feuerbach in "The Philosophy of Ludwig Feuerbach". The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx is a 1968 book about the philosopher Karl Marx by the political scientist Shlomo Avineri. Commentators have praised the book, which has become a classic. Avineri discusses the work of the philosopher Karl Marx, writing that he aims to do so without political bias and to take account of the rediscovery of early