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
Theories of Surplus Value "Das Kapital" and in several letters during the following ten years, Friedrich Engels had indicated his intention to publish the manuscript of "Theories of surplus-value". However, although he succeeded in publishing the second and third volume of ‘’Das Kapital’’, he was unable to publish the "Theories" before he died in 1895. The out-of-print Progress Publishers English edition of TSV is available online: Theories of Surplus Value Theories of Surplus Value () is a draft manuscript written by Karl Marx between January 1862 and July 1863. It is mainly concerned with the West European theorizing about "Mehrwert" (added value or surplus-value)