El Capital - Libro 2: El Proceso De Circulación De Capital - T. II Vol. 4

by Karl Marx

Capital 2, subtitled The Process of Circulation of Capital, was prepared by Friedrich Engels from notes left by Marx & published in 1885. It's divided into three parts: The Metamorphoses of Capital & Their Circuits, The Turnover of Capital, & The Reproduction & Circulation of the Aggregate Social Capital. Here the main ideas behind the marketplace are to be found: how value & surplus-value are realized. Its dramatis personae, not so much the worker & the industrialist as in Volume 1, but rather the money owner & lender, the wholesale merchant, the trader & the entrepreneur or 'functioning capitalist.' Moreover, workers appear in Volume 2, essentially as buyers of consumer goods &, therefore, as sellers of the commodity labor power, rather than producers of value & surplus-value (altho, this latter quality, established in Volume 1, remains the solid foundation on which the whole of the unfolding analysis is based). Reading Volume 2 is of great significance to understanding the theoretical construction of Marx' whole argument. Marx himself precisely clarified this place, in a letter sent to Engels on 4/30/1868: 'In Book 1...we content ourselves with the assumption that if in the self-expansion process £100 becomes £110, the latter will find already in existence in the market the elements into which it will change once more. But now we investigate the conditions under which these elements are found at hand, namely the social intertwining of the different capitals, of the component parts of capital & of revenue (=s).' This intertwining, conceived as a movement of commodities & of money, enabled Marx to work out at least the essential elements, if not the definitive form of a coherent theory of the trade cycle, based upon the inevitability of periodic disequilibrium between supply & demand under the capitalist mode of production (Mandel, 1978, Intro to Vol. 2 of Capital). Volume 2 has indeed been not only a 'sealed book', but also a forgotten one. To a large extent, it remains so to this day. Part 3 is the point of departure for a topic given its Marxist treatment later in detail by Rosa Luxemburg etc.

428 pages, Paperback

Published October 8, 2006

About the author

With the help of Friedrich Engels, German philosopher and revolutionary Karl Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (1867-1894), works, which explain historical development in terms of the interaction of contradictory economic forces, form many regimes, and profoundly influenced the social sciences.

German social theorist Friedrich Engels collaborated with Karl Marx on The Communist Manifesto in 1848 and on numerous other works.

Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin in London opposed Communism of Karl Marx with his antithetical anarchy.

Works of Jacques Martin Barzun include Darwin, Marx, Wagner (1941).

The Prussian kingdom introduced a prohibition on Jews, practicing law; in response, a man converted to Protestantism and shortly afterward fathered Karl Marx.

Marx began co-operating with Bruno Bauer on editing Philosophy of Religion of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (see Democritus and Epicurus), doctoral thesis, also engaged Marx, who completed it in 1841. People described the controversial essay as "a daring and original piece... in which Marx set out to show that theology must yield to the superior wisdom." Marx decided to submit his thesis not to the particularly conservative professors at the University of Berlin but instead to the more liberal faculty of University of Jena, which for his contributed key theory awarded his Philosophiae Doctor in April 1841. Marx and Bauer, both atheists, in March 1841 began plans for a journal, entitled Archiv des Atheismus (Atheistic Archives), which never came to fruition.

Marx edited the newspaper Vorwärts! in 1844 in Paris. The urging of the Prussian government from France banished and expelled Marx in absentia; he then studied in Brussels. He joined the league in 1847 and published.

Marx participated the failure of 1848 and afterward eventually wound in London. Marx, a foreigner, corresponded for several publications of United States.
He came in three volumes. Marx organized the International and the social democratic party.

Marx in a letter to C. Schmidt once quipped, "All I know is that I am not a Marxist," as Warren Allen Smith related in Who's Who in Hell .

People describe Marx, who most figured among humans. They typically cite Marx with Émile Durkheim and Max Weber, the principal modern architects.

Bertrand Russell later remarked of non-religious Marx, "His belief that there is a cosmic ... called dialectical materialism, which governs ... independently of human volitions, is mere mythology" ( Portraits from Memory , 1956).

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Reviews

[Orlando Santos · Rating 5 out of 5]

Un clásico. Requiere leer sobre la historia de la economía política clásica y la filosofía alemana del siglo XIX para entenderlo.
No podrás estar de acuerdo con todo lo que dice, pero es un indispensable.
P.D: la traducción es la mejor que existe en lengua española.