A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

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A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy is Karl Marx’s 1859 work that lays the theoretical groundwork for his critique of capitalism, especially its economic categories and dynamics, later developed more fully in Capital.

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instanceOf book
economic treatise
non-fiction book
author Karl Marx NERFINISHED
centralConcept commodity
exchange value
mode of production determines social formation
money as universal equivalent
social relations of production
use value
countryOfOrigin Prussia NERFINISHED
genre Marxist theory
political economy
hasEnglishTranslation A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (English edition) NERFINISHED
hasPart Chapter on Capital (planned but not included in 1859 volume)
Chapter on Money
Chapter on the Commodity
Preface
historicalContext 19th-century industrial capitalism
influenced Marxist economics
Western Marxism NERFINISHED
critical theory
socialist theory
inPrefaceFormulates base–superstructure model of society
theory of historical materialism
inPrefaceStates “It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.”
language German
laysGroundworkFor Capital, Volume I NERFINISHED
Marx’s critique of political economy
notableSection Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy NERFINISHED
originalTitle Zur Kritik der politischen Ökonomie NERFINISHED
philosophicalTradition Marxism NERFINISHED
dialectical materialism
precedes Capital, Volume I NERFINISHED
publicationDate 1859
publisher Franz Duncker NERFINISHED
relatedWork Critique of the Gotha Programme NERFINISHED
Grundrisse NERFINISHED
The Communist Manifesto NERFINISHED
subject base and superstructure
capitalism
commodity
forces of production
historical materialism
labor theory of value
mode of production
money
political economy
relations of production
value theory

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Marxian labor theory of value centralText A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy