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
Karl Marx (composer) music publisher C. F. Peters in the State Archive Leipzig • Works by and about Karl Marx in the catalogue of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Karl Marx (composer) Karl Marx (* 12. November 1897 in Munich; † 8. May 1985 in Stuttgart) was a German composer and music teacher. Karl Marx was the son of Josef Marx and his wife Emilie, née Eheberg. After early violin and piano lessons, Karl Marx first studied natural sciences at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich in 1916. His encounter with Carl Orff, during whom he took private composition lessons after the World War I,