Capital: Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy

"Labour, then, as the creator of use-values, as useful labour, is a condition of human existence which is independent of all forms of society." Karl Marx was living in exile in England when he embarked on an ambitious, multi-volume critique of the capitalist system of production. Though only the first volume saw publication in his lifetime-the second and third were completed from his notes by his friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels-it would become one of the most influential (and notor...