Das Kapital "increasing misery" doctrine, which is presumed to mean that the proletariat is absolutely immiserated. "Capital, Volume I" (1867); published in Marx’s lifetime: "Capital, Volume II" (1885); manuscript not completed by Marx before his death in 1883; subsequently edited and published, by friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels, as the work of Marx: "Capital, Volume III" (1894); manuscript not completed by Marx before his death in 1883; subsequently edited and published, by friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels, as the work of Marx: "Capital, Volume IV" (1905–1910); critical history of theories of surplus value; manuscript written by Marx; partial edition edited and published,
Reproduction (economics) Reproduction (economics) In Marxian economics, economic reproduction refers to recurrent (or cyclical) processes. Michel Aglietta views economic reproduction as the process whereby the initial conditions necessary for economic activity to occur are constantly re-created. Marx viewed reproduction as the process by which society re-created itself, both materially and socially. Economic reproduction involves: Karl Marx developed the original insights of Quesnay to model the circulation of capital, money, and commodities in the second volume of "Das Kapital" to show how the reproduction process that must occur in any type of society can take place in capitalist society by means of the