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Marx Critique of Political Economy Central. Scholarly research briefs on Marxian theory: Capital Volumes I, II, and III and the Grundrisse, culminating in a master reference synthesis document.

Across the whole corpus

The Corpus Briefs

Written across Marx's whole body of work rather than on any single text.

Master Reference

Marx: The Critique of Political Economy

The work

Capital Volume I

The whole of Volume I: the complete-volume brief plus all eight Part briefs — the commodity and the value-form, money into capital, absolute and relative surplus-value, machinery, wages, accumulation, and so-called primitive accumulation.

The briefs

The Complete Brief

Capital, Volume I

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Part One — Commodities and Money

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Part Two — The Transformation of Money into Capital

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Part Three — The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value

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Part Four — The Production of Relative Surplus-Value

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Part Five — The Production of Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value

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Part Six — Wages

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Part Seven — The Process of Accumulation of Capital

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Part Eight — So-Called Primitive Accumulation

The work

Capital Volume II

The complete Volume II brief plus its three Parts: the metamorphoses and circuits of capital, the turnover of capital, and the reproduction and circulation of the total social capital.

The briefs

The Complete Brief

Capital, Volume II

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Part One — The Metamorphoses of Capital and their Circuits

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Part Two — The Turnover of Capital

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Part Three — The Reproduction and Circulation of the Total Social Capital

The work

Capital Volume III

The complete Volume III brief plus its seven Parts: profit and the rate of profit, average profit and prices of production, the tendential fall in the rate of profit, merchant's capital, interest-bearing capital, ground-rent, and the trinity formula.

The briefs

The Complete Brief

Capital, Volume III

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Part One — The Transformation of Surplus-Value into Profit and of the Rate of Surplus-Value into the Rate of Profit

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Part Two — The Transformation of Profit into Average Profit

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Part Three — The Law of the Tendential Fall in the Rate of Profit

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Part Four — The Transformation of Commodity Capital and Money Capital into Commercial Capital and Money-Dealing Capital (Merchant's Capital)

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Part Five — The Division of Profit into Interest and Profit of Enterprise. Interest-Bearing Capital

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Part Six — The Transformation of Surplus Profit into Ground-Rent

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Part Seven — The Revenues and their Sources

The work

The Grundrisse

The complete Grundrisse brief plus its five source briefs: the 1857 Introduction, the chapter on money, capital's production process, the forms that precede capitalist production, and the fragment on machines.

The briefs

The Complete Brief

Grundrisse

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Brief One — The Introduction (1857)

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Brief Two — The Chapter on Money

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Brief Three — The Chapter on Capital — The Production Process

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Brief Four — Forms Which Precede Capitalist Production

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Brief Five — Circulation, Fixed Capital, and the Fragment on Machines

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