ABSTRACT

We shall concentrate on Marx’s Capital as a whole, with the aim of investigating the structure of that work, in the shape in which it has been left us in Marx’s own edition of Volume I (1867) and Friedrich Engels’ edition of Volumes II and III (1885, 1894). However, as will soon become clear, the main idea is that Marx’s work is also a form of empirical construction, portraying the concrete, but general, shapes and structures of the capitalistic features which dominate Western economy and its world market.