Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political EconomyWritten during the winter of 1857-8, the Grundrisse was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of communist theory. A collection of seven notebooks on capital and money, it both develops the arguments outlined in the Communist Manifesto (1848) and explores the themes and theses that were to dominate his great later work Capital. Here, for the first time, Marx set out his own version of Hegel's dialectics and developed his mature views on labour, surplus value and profit, offering many fresh insights into alienation, automation and the dangers of capitalist society. Yet while the theories in Grundrisse make it a vital precursor to Capital, it also provides invaluable descriptions of Marx's wider-ranging philosophy, making it a unique insight into his beliefs and hopes for the foundation of a communist state. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 83
Page 18
... capitalist economy as a whole . It abstracts the law of équivalent exchange and the world market from developed capitalism , but the absence of classes disqualifies it as an image of developed capitalism in toto . The sphere of exchange ...
... capitalist economy as a whole . It abstracts the law of équivalent exchange and the world market from developed capitalism , but the absence of classes disqualifies it as an image of developed capitalism in toto . The sphere of exchange ...
Page 19
... capitalist production , which is not even fully capitalist yet , but still has one foot in the guilds and yeomanry of the Middle Ages . Any attempt , therefore , to portray the sphere of circulation as the whole of a society , to reduce ...
... capitalist production , which is not even fully capitalist yet , but still has one foot in the guilds and yeomanry of the Middle Ages . Any attempt , therefore , to portray the sphere of circulation as the whole of a society , to reduce ...
Page 20
... capitalist production process is not a non - economic affair , because the use value of ' labour ' for its buyer , the capitalist , is precisely to create exchange values , com- modities , products to be sold . The capitalist's ...
... capitalist production process is not a non - economic affair , because the use value of ' labour ' for its buyer , the capitalist , is precisely to create exchange values , com- modities , products to be sold . The capitalist's ...
Page 21
... capitalist as ' labour ' . Now this turns out to be inadequate . Unlike other commodities , this particular one ' is ... capitalist must obtain more value than he has given ' , otherwise no surplus value , no capitalist , no capitalism ...
... capitalist as ' labour ' . Now this turns out to be inadequate . Unlike other commodities , this particular one ' is ... capitalist must obtain more value than he has given ' , otherwise no surplus value , no capitalist , no capitalism ...
Page 22
... capitalist's ' gross profit ' or surplus value , later shared out among the industrial capitalist ( profit ) , the banker ( interest ) and the landlord ( rent ) . We pass rapidly over the appearance , in some cases the first appearance ...
... capitalist's ' gross profit ' or surplus value , later shared out among the industrial capitalist ( profit ) , the banker ( interest ) and the landlord ( rent ) . We pass rapidly over the appearance , in some cases the first appearance ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
20 thalers abstract accumulation alien labour already amount of labour appears Bastiat becomes bourgeois capitalist circulating capital coin commodity conditions of production consumed consumption contradiction costs created determined duction economic economists employed equal equivalent exchange value existence expressed fixed capital forces of production gold and silver Grundrisse Hegel hence historic increase independent individual individual capital industry landed property latter living labour capacity machinery Marx Marx's material and instrument means measure mediated medium of circulation merely metal mode of production modities natural necessary labour Notebook objectified labour objective conditions particular Political Economy posited presupposed presupposition product of labour production process productive force proportion quantity of labour rate of profit raw material realization regarded relations of production relative reproduction Ricardo side social society specific surplus labour surplus value thing tion transformation turnover wage labour wealth worker