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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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
economic treatise
non-fiction book
author Karl Marx
centralConcept commodity
exchange value
mode of production determines social formation
money as universal equivalent
social relations of production
use value
countryOfOrigin Prussia
genre Marxist theory
political economy
hasEnglishTranslation A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (English edition)
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
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
linked to: Das Kapital

Marx’s critique of political economy
notableSection Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
originalTitle Zur Kritik der politischen Ökonomie
philosophicalTradition Marxism
dialectical materialism
precedes Capital, Volume I
linked to: Das Kapital
publicationDate 1859
publisher Franz Duncker
relatedWork Critique of the Gotha Programme
Grundrisse
The Communist Manifesto
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
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy originalTitle Zur Kritik der politischen Ökonomie
linked to: A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy notableSection Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
linked to: A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy hasEnglishTranslation A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (English edition)
linked to: A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy