Das Kapital class struggle rooted in the capitalist social relations of production. The first of three volumes of "Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Ökonomie" ("Capital. Critique of Political Economy") was published on 14 September 1867, dedicated to Wilhelm Wolff and was the sole volume published in Marx’s lifetime. "Capital, Volume II", subtitled "The Process of Circulation of Capital", was prepared by Engels from notes left by Marx and published in 1885. It is divided into three parts: "The Metamorphoses of Capital and Their Circuits", "The Turnover of Capital" and "The Reproduction and Circulation of the Aggregate Social Capital". In "Volume II", the
The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx 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 works by Marx, such as the "Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right", "The German Ideology", the "Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844", and the "Grundrisse". He argues that previous discussions of