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
Grundrisse Grundrisse The Grundrisse der Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie ("Fundamentals of Political Economy Criticism") is a lengthy, unfinished manuscript by the German philosopher Karl Marx. The series of seven notebooks were rough-drafted by Marx, chiefly for purposes of self-clarification, during the winter of 1857-8. Left aside by Marx in 1858, it remained unpublished until 1939. The "Grundrisse" is very wide-ranging in subject matter and covers all six sections of Marx's economics (of which only one, the first volume of "Das Kapital", ever reached a final form). It is often described as the rough draft of "Das Kapital", although there is considerable