Marx & Engels Collected Works: Volume 29

Volume 29

Karl Marx Economic Works
1857-1861

Economic Manuscripts of 1857-58
(First Version of Capital)

Second part of the Grundrisse and the Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859).


Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy (Rough Draft of 1857-58) [Second Instalment]5
[III. Chapter on Capital]7
[Section Two. Circulation Process of Capital. Conclusion]7

[Fixed and Circulating Capital]

7

[Fixed Capital and the Development of the Productive Forces of Society]

80

[Circulation and Reproduction of Fixed and Circulating Capital]

99
Section Three. Capital as Bearing Fruit. Interest. Profit. (Production Costs, etc.)129
[Addenda to the Chapters on Money and on Capital]162
[Money as Measure of Values]171
[Money as Means of Circulation and as Independent Value]186
[Machinery and Profit]198
[Alienation]209
[Varia]211
I. Value252
Gold-Weighing Machines254
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. Part One257

Preface

261

Book One. On Capital

267

Section One. Capital in General

269

Chapter One. The Commodity

269

A. Historical Notes on the Analysis of Commodities

292

Chapter Two. Money or Simple Circulation

303

1. Measure of Value

303

B. Theories of the Standard of Money

314

2. Medium of Exchange

323

    a. The Metamorphosis of Commodities

324

    b. The Circulation of Money

334

    c. Coins. Tokens of Value

342

3. Money

356

    a. Hoarding

359

    b. Means of Payment

370

    c. World Money

381

4. The Precious Metals

385

C. Theories of the Medium of Circulation and of Money

389

 

From the Preparatory Materials

Index to the 7 Notebooks421

[First Draft]

421

    I) Value

421

    II) Money

421

    III) Capital in General

423

[Second Draft]

423
Original text of Second and beginning of Third chapter of Contribution to Critique of Political Economy430

[Chapter Two. Money]

430

    [2. Money as Means of Payment]

430

    3. Money as International Means of Payment and Purchase, as World Coin

435

    4. The Precious Metals as Vehicles of the Money Relationship

452

    5. The Manifestation of the Law of Appropriation in the Simple Circulation

461

    6. Transition to Capital

478

Chapter Three. Capital

501

    A) The Process of Production of Capital

501

    1. The Transformation of Money into Capital

501
[Additional Notes]508
Invariable Value of Money508
Money as Money (World Coin, etc.)508
Draft Plan of the Chapter on Capital 511

I. The Process of Production of Capital

511

II. Circulation Process of Capital

514

III. Capital and Profit

516

[IV.] Varia

516
References to My Own Notebooks518

 

Notes and Indexes

Notes535
Name Index551
Index of Quoted and Mentioned Literature563
Index of Periodicals577
Subject Index579

 

Illustrations

Page 32 of Notebook VI with the Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy43
Title page of the first edition of A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy259
Page 13 of Notebook B with a fragment of the original text of the second chapter of A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy453
Page 28 of Notebook B with References to My Own Notebooks519