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