Marx-Engels Collected Works,Volume 29 - Marx: 1857-1861

Marx/Engels Collected Works (MECW) is the largest collection of translations into English of the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It contains all works published by Marx and Engels in their lifetimes and numerous unpublished manuscripts and letters. The Collected Works, which was translated by Richard Dixon and others, consists of 50 volumes. It was compiled and issued between 1975 and 2005 by Progress Publishers (Moscow) in collaboration with Lawrence and Wishart (London) and International Publishers (New York City). Politics,Marxism Contents 2 Preface 8 Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy ( Rough Draft of 1857- 58) [ Second Instalment] 26 [ III. Chapter on Capital] 28 [ Section Two. Circulation Process of Capital. Conclusion] 28 [ Fixed and Circulating Capital] 28 [ Fixed Capital and the Development of the Productive Forces of Society] 101 [ Circulation and Reproduction of Fixed and Circulating Capital] 120 Section Three. Capital as Bearing Fruit. Interest. Profit. (Production Costs, etc.) 150 [ Addenda to the Chapters on Money and on Capital] 183 [ Money as Measure of Values] 192 [ Money as Means of Circulation and as Independent Value] 207 [ Machinery and Profit] 219 [ Alienation] 230 [ Varia] 232 I. Value 273 Gold- Weighing Machines 275 A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. Part One 278 Preface 282 Book One. On Capital 288 Section One. Capital in General 290 Chapter One. The Commodity 290 A. Historical Notes on the Analysis of Commodities 313 Chapter Two. Money or Simple Circulation 324 1. Measure of Value 324 B. Theories of the Standard of Money 335 2. Medium of Exchange 344 a. The Metamorphosis of Commodities 345 b. The Circulation of Money 355 c. Coins. Tokens of Value 363 3. Money 377 a. Hoarding 380 b. Means of Payment 391 c. World Money 402 4. The Precious Metals 406 C. Theories of the Medium of Circulation and of Money 410 FROM THE PREPARATORY MATERIALS 442 Index to the 7 Notebooks 442 [ First Draft] 442 I) Value 442 II) Money 442 III) Capital in General 444 [ Second Draft] 444 The Original Text of the Second and the Beginning of the Third Chapter of A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy 451 [ Chapter Two. Money] 451 [ 2. Money as Means of Payment] 451 3. Money as International Means of Payment and Purchase, as World Coin 456 4. The Precious Metals as Vehicles of the Money Relationship 473 5. The Manifestation of the Law of Appropriation in the Simple Circulation 482 6. Transition to Capital 499 Chapter Three. Capital 522 A) The Process of Production of Capital 522 1. The Transformation of Money into Capital 522 [ Additional Notes] 529 Invariable Value of Money 529 Money as Money ( World Coin, etc.) 529 Draft Plan of the Chapter on Capital 532 I. The Process of Production of Capital 532 II. Circulation Process of Capital 535 III. Capital and Profit 537 [ IV.] Varia 537 References to My Own Notebooks 539 NOTES AND INDEXES 556 Notes 442 Name Index 572 Index of Quoted and Mentioned Literature 584 Index of Periodicals 598 Subject Index 600 ILLUSTRATIONS 64 Page 32 of Notebook VI with the Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy 64 Title page of the first edition of A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy 280 Page 13 of Notebook B' with a fragment of the original text of the second chapter of A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy 474 Page 28 of Notebook B" with References to My Own Notebooks 540