Capital: A Critique of Political Economy; The Process of Capitalist Production (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Capital: A Critique of Political Economy; The Process of Capitalist Production<br><br>The present volume consists mainly of the first nine chap ters of Volume I.-of Marx''s Capitol which are now not for the first time however reprinted. These chapters have long been recognized to contain the theoretical part of the Marxian system in so far as it applies to political economy i.e. the laws of value surplus - value and money. Former editions being now out of print or otherwise unobtainable it is considered desirable to issue the present book which is in tended to be used as a text - book for economic classes and the like as being more convenient to the needs of group - stu dents than the bulky volume of Capital and particularly in view of the uniform non-success which has attended the numerous attempts to popularize or simplify Capital more desirable than these.<br><br>The practical application of the theories here expounded must of course be studied in the complete work and in the voluminous post-marxian literature. One thing more: Marx ian economics can be understood only and should be studied only as forming part of a complete whole - a system - which has been called not very happily the Socialist Philosophy. For this reason there has been included the famous 32nd chapter of Capital and the following extract from the preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy is presented as indicating the manner m which Marx himself approached this problem.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.