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Capital

Karl Marx

Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling (1887)

Karl Marx's Capital (Das Kapital, Volume I, 1867) is the central work of Marxist economics and one of the most influential books of the modern age. Subtitled 'A Critique of Political Economy,' it analyzes the capitalist mode of production, beginning from the commodity and the labour theory of value and building to the theory of surplus-value—the unpaid labour Marx argues is the source of capitalist profit. It traces the working day, machinery, wages, and the accumulation of capital, culminating in an account of the historical genesis of capitalism. This is the Moore-Aveling English translation, edited by Friedrich Engels.

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Contents

1. Prefaces
2. Part I
   1. Chapter I
   2. Chapter II
3. Part II
   1. Chapter IV
4. Part III
   1. Chapter VIII
   2. Chapter IX
   3. Chapter X
   4. Chapter XI
5. Part IV
   1. Chapter XIL
   2. Chapter XIII
   3. Chapter XIV
   4. Chapter XV
6. Part V
   1. Chapter XVI
   2. Chapter XVII
7. Part VI
   1. Chapter XIX
   2. Chapter XX
   3. Chapter XXI
8. Part VII
   1. Chapter XXIII
   2. Chapter XXIV
   3. Chapter XXV
9. Part VIII
   1. Chapter XXVI
   2. Chapter XXVII
   3. Chapter XXIX
   4. Chapter XXX
   5. Chapter XXXIII