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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Target entity: A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy Context triple: [Marxian labor theory of value, centralText, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy]
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Traité d'économie politique
Traité d'économie politique is an influential early 19th-century economics treatise by Jean-Baptiste Say that systematically presents classical liberal economic theory, including the formulation of Say’s Law.
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The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
"The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole" is the third volume of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital, in which he analyzes the overall dynamics of the capitalist system, including profit, interest, and the distribution of surplus value.
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Das Kapital
Das Kapital is Karl Marx’s foundational critique of political economy that analyzes capitalism’s dynamics, contradictions, and exploitation of labor.
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The Accumulation of Capital
The Accumulation of Capital is a seminal Marxist economic treatise by Rosa Luxemburg that analyzes imperialism and capitalist expansion through the lens of capital accumulation and its contradictions.
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Éléments d’économie politique pure
Éléments d’économie politique pure is Léon Walras’s foundational treatise that systematically develops the theory of general equilibrium in economics using mathematical methods.
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy Target entity description: 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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A.
Traité d'économie politique
Traité d'économie politique is an influential early 19th-century economics treatise by Jean-Baptiste Say that systematically presents classical liberal economic theory, including the formulation of Say’s Law.
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B.
The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
"The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole" is the third volume of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital, in which he analyzes the overall dynamics of the capitalist system, including profit, interest, and the distribution of surplus value.
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C.
Das Kapital
Das Kapital is Karl Marx’s foundational critique of political economy that analyzes capitalism’s dynamics, contradictions, and exploitation of labor.
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D.
The Accumulation of Capital
The Accumulation of Capital is a seminal Marxist economic treatise by Rosa Luxemburg that analyzes imperialism and capitalist expansion through the lens of capital accumulation and its contradictions.
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E.
Éléments d’économie politique pure
Éléments d’économie politique pure is Léon Walras’s foundational treatise that systematically develops the theory of general equilibrium in economics using mathematical methods.
- F. None of above. chosen
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book
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economic treatise ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ |
| author | Karl Marx NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralConcept |
commodity
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exchange value ⓘ mode of production determines social formation ⓘ money as universal equivalent ⓘ social relations of production ⓘ use value ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Prussia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Marxist theory
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political economy ⓘ |
| hasEnglishTranslation | A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (English edition) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Chapter on Capital (planned but not included in 1859 volume)
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Chapter on Money ⓘ Chapter on the Commodity ⓘ Preface ⓘ |
| historicalContext | 19th-century industrial capitalism ⓘ |
| influenced |
Marxist economics
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Western Marxism NERFINISHED ⓘ critical theory ⓘ socialist theory ⓘ |
| inPrefaceFormulates |
base–superstructure model of society
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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
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Marx’s critique of political economy ⓘ |
| notableSection | Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Zur Kritik der politischen Ökonomie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition |
Marxism
NERFINISHED
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dialectical materialism ⓘ |
| precedes | Capital, Volume I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1859 ⓘ |
| publisher | Franz Duncker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Critique of the Gotha Programme
NERFINISHED
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Grundrisse NERFINISHED ⓘ The Communist Manifesto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subject |
base and superstructure
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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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