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
Studies on Marx and Hegel Studies on Marx and Hegel Studies on Marx and Hegel () is a 1955 book about Karl Marx and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel by the French philosopher Jean Hyppolite. It has received praise from commentators, and has been credited with showing Hegel's anticipation of existentialism. Hyppolite provides assessments of Hegel's "The Phenomenology of Spirit" (1807), including the significance of Hegel's discussion in that work of the French Revolution. He also assesses Hegel's "Science of Logic", Marx's "Das Kapital" (1867–1883), and Marx's critique of Hegel's "Elements of the Philosophy of Right" (1820), and discusses György Lukács's "The Young Hegel" (1938). "Studies