Marx & Engels Collected Works: Volume 30

Volume 30

Karl Marx Economic Works
1861-1863

Economic Manuscripts of 1861-63

A Contribution to the Critique of
Political Economy
Third Chapter, Capital in General

Notebooks I to VII, pp. 1-210 and 220-299.


I. The Production Process of Capital9
1) Transformation of Money into Capital9

a) M—C—M. The Most General Form of Capital

9

b) Difficulties Arising from the Nature of Value, etc

20

c) Exchange with Labour. Labour Process. Valorisation Process

33

    Value of labour capacity. Minimum salary or average wage of Labour

42

    Exchange of Money with Labour Capacity

50

    The Labour Process

54

    The Valorisation Process

66

    Unity of the Labour Process and the Valorisation Process
    (The Capitalist Production Process)

92

    The 2 Components of the Transformation of Money into Capital

103

Additions

137
2) Absolute Surplus Value172

a) Surplus Value Is to Be Conceived as a Simple Relation to a Definite Portion of Capital, Namely That Laid Out in Wages

172

b) Ratio of Surplus Labour to Necessary Labour. Measure of Surplus Labour

180

c) Advantage of Overwork

185

d) Simultaneous Working Days

185

e) Character of Surplus Labour

190

Additions

193

Rate of Surplus Value

229
3) Relative Surplus Value233

a) Cooperation

255

b) Division of Labour

264

    Digression: (on Productive Labour)

306

c) Machinery. Utilisation of the Forces of Nature and of Science
    (steam, electricity, mechanical and chemical agencies)

318
5) Theories of Surplus Value348

a) [Sir James Steuart]

348

b) The Physiocrats

352

c) Adam Smith

376

 [Inquiry into How It Is Possible for the Annual Profit and Wages to Buy the Annual Commodities, Which Besides Profit and Wages Also Contain Constant Capital]

411

 

Notes and Indexes

Notes455
Name Index482
Index of Quoted and Mentioned Literature490
Index of Periodicals501

 

Illustrations

Cover page of Notebook I of the Economic Manuscript of 1861-637
Inside cover page of Notebook I of the Economic Manuscript of 1861-638
Page 113 of Notebook III of the Economic Manuscript of 1861-63207
Page 182 of Notebook V of the Economic Manuscript of 1861-63307
Page 220 of Notebook VI of the Economic Manuscript of 1861-63349