Grundrisse disagreement about the exact relationship between the two texts, particularly around the issue of methodology. Due to its breadth and its incorporation of themes from Marx's earlier writings, the "Grundrisse" is central to Marx's body of work. Its subject matter includes production, relations of production, distribution, exchange, alienation, value, labor, capitalism, the rise of technology and automation, pre-capitalist forms of social organization, and the preconditions for a communist revolution. Scholars have noted major differences between Marx's earlier writings, such as "The German Ideology" and "The Communist Manifesto", and the late ones, "Das Kapital" and "Grundrisse", suggesting that Marx's views evolved,
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