Adam Smith homely observations, making them feel comfortable all along." Classical economists presented competing theories of those of Smith, termed the "labour theory of value". Later Marxian economics descending from classical economics also use Smith's labour theories, in part. The first volume of Karl Marx's major work, "Das Kapital", was published in German in 1867. In it, Marx focused on the labour theory of value and what he considered to be the exploitation of labour by capital. The labour theory of value held that the value of a thing was determined by the labour that went into its production. This contrasts with
Karl Marx in film out." At least two episodes of the BBC TV comedy series "Monty Python's Flying Circus" include sketches depicting Marx in modern-day settings, and which lampoon the presumed gravity of his thinking. In one episode Marx competes in a TV quiz show for a lounge suite but fails to win when the show's host poses him a prosaic question about football. "The Young Karl Marx" is a 2017 film about Young Marx directed by Raoul Peck starring August Diehl. Films in which Karl Marx is represented and/or in which his ideas or principal works comprise the main narrative theme: Karl Marx