Capital analyzed how commodity production, wage labor, and surplus value organize capitalist accumulation. The book drew on global trade and colonial dispossession, though its treatment of colonialism...
For the second German edition, Marx revised the text and added material, responding to criticism and further research. The changes demonstrate that Capital was an evolving project rather than a...
Engels assembled and edited Marx’s unfinished manuscripts on the circulation of capital. The volume’s organization was an act of scholarship as well as collaboration, and later researchers continue to...
Engels edited Marx’s extensive manuscripts into a volume on profit, prices, and capitalist competition. The posthumous publication completed the major three-volume sequence, while the work’s...
