Das Kapital and preparatory work (especially regarding the theory of surplus value), the first volume appeared in 1867 as "The Production Process of Capital". After Marx's death in 1883, from manuscripts and the first volume Engels introduced Volume II: "The Circulation Process of Capital" in 1885; and Volume III: "The Overall Process of Capitalist Production" in 1894. These three volumes are collectively known as "Das Kapital". "Capital, Volume I" (1867) is a critical analysis of political economy, meant to reveal the contradictions of the capitalist mode of production, how it was the precursor of the socialist mode of production and of the
The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx Marx have suffered from lack of awareness of these works. In addition, he discusses "Das Kapital" and explores the influence of the philosophers Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Ludwig Feuerbach on Marx. "The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx" was published by Cambridge University Press in 1968. "The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx" received positive reviews from Gianfranco Poggi in the "British Journal of Sociology" and Herminio Martins in "The Sociological Review". The book was also reviewed by George L. Donaldson in the "International Review of Modern Sociology". Poggi described the book as a convincing attempt to