Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, the first volume of which was published in 1867, is the founding text of Marxian economics. Karl Marx analyzed capitalism as a historical system built on the extraction of surplus value from labor, and argued that the system contains internal contradictions that produce recurring crises.
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AuthorKarl Marx
Publication Year1867
Source Typeprimary-text
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy
Karl Marx, 1867
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