Is it worth reading Marx Capital?

It’s a fantastic book, and you should read it! Capital is worthwhile for its historical significance alone, both to politics in the last 150 years and to philosophical and intellectual developments. But it’s also a highly relevant book to our current times.

What did Marx argue about the circulation of Capital?

Marx argues: Capital cannot therefore arise from circulation, and it is equally impossible for it to arise apart from circulation. It must have its origin both in circulation and not in circulation. …

What does Marx say about Capital?

In Marxian critique of political economy, capital is reproduced by social relations, and could not exist without labour. Marx himself stated it: “Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.”

How many volumes is Marx’s Capital?

three volumes
After Marx’s death in 1883, Engels introduced Volume II: The Circulation Process of Capital in 1885; and Volume III: The Overall Process of Capitalist Production in 1894 from manuscripts and the first volume. These three volumes are collectively known as Das Kapital.

How long is Marx capital?

1134 pages
In this edition, page numbers are just like the physical edition. Length: 1134 pages. Word Wise: Enabled.

How does Marx define capital and its relation to commodity and work?

The capitalist starts with money, transforms it into commodities, then transforms those commodities into more money. Capital is money used to obtain more money. These two different arrangements are summed up respectively in the diagrams C-M-C and M-C-M (C = commodity; M = money).

Is capital money Marx?

Money which is acquired in order to buy something is just money, facilitating the exchange of commodities. [Marx represent this as C – M – C or Commodity – Money – Commodity.] On the other hand, capital is money which is used to buy something only in order to sell it again. [Marx represented this as M – C – M.]