Out of the six subjects outlined here, Marx managed to deal only with the first subject, ie capital and even that can be said to be not in full satisfactory form. The opening lines of the Preface are: “I examine the system of bourgeois economy in the following order: capital, landed property, wage labour the State, foreign trade, world market”.

By now, Kapital Volume 1 has been translated in all major languages, including Punjabi and Hindi.īefore Kapital Volume 1, Marx had given a clear indication of his theoretical project in the Preface to a short book titled A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy that was published in 1859. The first English translation appeared a few years after his death in 1887. The first French edition also appeared in 1872. It was welcomed by Marx in these words: “An excellent Russian translation of Das Kapital appeared in the spring of 1872'. The first foreign language translation of Capital Volume 1 was published in Russian in 1872. Marx referred in his Volume 1 and in the notes of the other two volumes to his forthcoming Volume 4, but the work he left for that volume was published as three volumes of Theories of Surplus Value by Karl Kautsky (1854-1938) between 19. Marx left notes of the two other volumes - Volume 2 and Volume 3 - and these notes were used by his lifelong friend and collaborator Frederick Engels (1820-1895) to publish after Marx’s death: Volume 2 in 1885 and Volume 3 shortly before his death in 1894. This was the only volume of his multi-volume work on capital that Marx completed in its final version as he wanted it and saw it published in his life time. In September 1867, Kapital Volume 1 by Karl Marx (1818-1883) was published in German language.

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