Das Kapital is Marx's monumental critique of capitalism, analyzing how value is created through labor and extracted as profit. Volume 1 traces how money becomes capital, how workers sell their labor power, and how the system perpetuates itself.
Table of Contents
The Hidden Life of Things We Buy
How Things Become Money
Money's Three Faces
The Money-Making Machine Revealed
The Profit Puzzle
The Labor Deal: Why Workers Always Lose
How Bosses Turn Work Into Profit
The Two Faces of Labor
The Rate of Surplus-Value
The Battle for the Working Day
The Math of Exploitation
Working Smarter, Not Harder: The Productivity Trap
The Power of Working Together
Division of Labor and Manufacture
Machinery and Modern Industry
About Karl Marx
Published 1867
Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a German philosopher and economist whose critique of capitalism shaped the 20th century. Das Kapital took decades to write.
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