Marx & Engels Collected Works: Volume 28

Volume 28

Karl Marx Economic Works
1857-1861

Economic Manuscripts of 1857-58
(First Version of Capital)

First part of the Grundrisse.


Bastiat and Carey

5

Avantpropos

5

XIV. Des Sataires

11
Introduction17
I. Production, Consumption, Distribution, Exchange (Circulation)17

1. Production

17

2. The General Relation of Production to Distribution, Exchange and Consumption

26

    (a) [Consumption and Production]

27

    (b) [Distribution and Production]

32

    (c) Lastly, Exchange and Circulation

36

3. The Method of Political Economy

37

4. Production. Means of Production and Relations of Production. Relations of Production and Conditions of Communication. Forms of the State and of Consciousness in Relation to the Relations of Production and of Commerce. Legal Relations. Family Relations

45
Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy (Rough Draft of 1857-58) [First Instalment]49
II. Chapter on Money51

Alfred Darimon, De la Reforme des Banques, Paris, 1856

51

[The Origin and Essence of Money]

78

[The Precious Metals as Expression of the Money Relationship]

110

    (a) Gold and Silver in Comparison with the Other Metals

111

    (b) Fluctuations in the Value Ratio of the Different Metals

115

[Money Circulation]

121

    (a) [Money as Measure of Value]

123

    (b) [Money as a Means of Circulation]

128

    (c) Money as Material Representative of Wealth. (Accumulation of money. But first we have still to consider money as the general material of contracts, etc.)

138
[III. Chapter on Capital]171
[Section One] [The Process of Production of Capital]171
Chapter on Money as Capital171

[Transformation of Money into Capital]

171

1. Circulation and Exchange Value Deriving from Circulation as a Prerequisite of Capital

190

2. Exchange Value Emerging from Circulation Becomes Its Premiss, Maintains Itself in It and Multiplies Itself by Means of Labour

194

Exchange between Capital and Labour

204

[Labour Process and Process of Valorisation]

230

[Absolute and Relative Surplus Value]

267

[Surplus Value and Profit]

291
[Section Two] [Circulation Process of Capital]329

[Reproduction and Accumulation of Capital]

329

[Forms Preceding Capitalist Production]

399

[Circuit and Turnover of Capital]

439

[Theories of Surplus Value and Profit]

473

 

Notes and Indexes

Notes541
Name Index562
Index of Quoted and Mentioned Literature568
Index of Periodicals576
Subject Index577

 

Illustrations

Back of the cover and page 1 of Notebook M containing the Introduction20-21
Cover of Notebook VII of the manuscript Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy53
Page 3 of Notebook IV of Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy303
Page 24 of Notebook IV of Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy347