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
Biographies of Karl Marx Biographies of Karl Marx Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Born in Trier to a middle-class family, he later studied political economy and Hegelian philosophy. For a general review of Karl Marx biographies, see the article "Karl Marx: An Overview of his Biographies" by Angelo Segrillo. Karl Marx: The Story of His Life () is a 1918 book about Karl Marx by Franz Mehring, a German historian. Considered the classical biography of Marx, the work has been translated into many languages, including Russian (1920), Danish (1922), Hungarian