Influences on Karl Marx end to the French Second Republic and created the Second Empire which would last until the 1870 Franco-Prussian War. Marx thereby modified his theory of alienation exposed in the "Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844" and would latter arrive to his theory of commodity fetishism, exposed in the first chapter of the first book of "Das Kapital" (1867). This abandonment of the early theory of alienation would be amply discussed, several Marxist theorists, including Marxist humanists such as the Praxis School, would return to it. Others such as Althusser would claim that the epistemological break between the young Marx and
Organic composition of capital constant capital in the total capital outlay increases, and that labor input per product unit declines. The concept is introduced in chapter 25 of "Das Kapital", where Marx writes: In his discussion, Marx leaves out of account components of capital other than labour-power and means of production invested in, such as the faux frais of production (incidental expenses). The full importance of the OCC emerges in chapter 8 of the third volume of "Das Kapital". The value composition of capital (VCC) is usually expressed as a ratio of constant capital to variable capital, or formula_1. Other measures are also used