The three volumes together give a comprehensive picture of the workings of a mature capitalist economy and highlights its long run, contradictory tendencies. In terms of content, the first volume analyses the production and accumulation of surplus value, the second volume investigates the problems of realization of surplus value, and the third volume analyses the mechanisms that lead to the distribution of surplus value into income streams of different fractions of the ruling class – as profit of enterprise, commercial profit, interest and rent (and monopoly profit more generally). In terms of structure, the analysis in the first two volumes is located at the level of ‘capital in general’, and the analysis in the third volume is located at the level of ‘many capitals’. The analysis is conducted at two primary levels of abstraction – ‘capital in general’ (where competition between individual capitals is abstracted from) and ‘many capitals’ (where the phenomenon of competiton between individual capitals is introduced) – and the presentation is organized into three volumes. Considered to be his masterwork, Capital has been translated into all the major languages.Karl Marx’s magnum opus, Das Kapital, presents an analysis of the long run dynamics of a mature capitalist economy. Capital, Volume II was published in 1885 and Capital, Volume III in 1894. Marx continued to work on the remaining two volumes which were published after his death by Engels. The first volume, Capital, Volume I, of his magnum opus Capital (Das Kapital) was published in 1867. One of the most important political documents of the world, this monumental text is highly influential and continues to remain widely read. Marx and Engels published ''The Communist Manifesto'', a political pamphlet summarizing their theories about the nature of society and politics, in 1848. Marx's The Poverty of Philosophy was published in 1847. In 1844, Marx befriended Friedrich Engels, the German socialist and became a revolutionary communist. When Karl Marxs was finalizing the first volume of Das Kapital, he already planned an English translation. Marx completed his doctoral thesis, titled The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature, in 1841 and submitted it to the University of Jena.

Karl Heinrich Marx ( - 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary.

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