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
Influences on Karl Marx was "much more important and copious than Darwin". Although there is no mention of Darwin in "The Communist Manifesto" (published eleven years prior to "The Origin of Species"), Marx includes two explicit references to Darwin and evolution in the second edition of "Das Kapital", in two footnotes where he relates Darwin's theory to his opinion about production and technology development. In the Volume I, Chapter 14: "The Detail Labourer and his implements", Section 2, Marx referred to Darwin's "Origin of Species" as an "epoch-making work" while in Chapter 15, Section I took on the comparison of organs of plants to