Das Kapital in the British Library, London. At the time of his death (1883), Marx had prepared the manuscript for "Das Kapital, Volume IV", a critical history of theories of surplus value of his time, the nineteenth century. The philosopher Karl Kautsky (1854–1938) published a partial edition of Marx's surplus-value critique and later published a full, three-volume edition as "Theorien über den Mehrwert" ("Theories of Surplus Value", 1905–1910). The first volume was published in English as "A History of Economic Theories" (1952). "Capital, Volume I" (1867) was published in Marx’s lifetime, but he died in 1883 before completing the manuscripts for "Capital,
Karl Marx and the Close of His System Karl Marx and the Close of His System Karl Marx and the Close of His System () is a critique of Karl Marx's economic theories by the Austrian economist Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, published in English translation in 1898. Böhm von Bawerk's work first appeared in 1896, in "Staatswissenschaftliche Arbeitern: Festgaben für Karl Knies", a collection of essays in honor of the German economist Karl Knies. It was published as a separate work later in 1896, and appeared in Russian translation in 1897 and in English translation in 1898. Bawerk provides a critique of Marx's "Capital". Examining Marx's theory of