Das Kapital sciences published before 1950. In "Das Kapital" (1867), Marx proposes that the motivating force of capitalism is in the exploitation of labor, whose unpaid work is the ultimate source of surplus value. The owner of the means of production is able to claim the right to this surplus value because he or she is legally protected by the ruling regime through property rights and the legally established distribution of shares which are by law only to be distributed to company owners and their board members. The historical section shows how these rights were acquired in the first place chiefly through
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