Capital; A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

It was no easy task to prepare the second volume of "Capital" for the printer in such a way that it should make a connected and complete work and represent exclusively the idens of its author, not of its publisher. The great number of available manuscripts, and their fragmentary character, added to the difilculties of this task. At best one single manuscript (No.4) had been revised throughout and made ready for the printer. And while it treated its subject-matter fully, the greater part bad become obsolete through subsequent revision. The bulk of the material was not polished as to language, even if the subject-matter was for the greater part fully worked out. The language was that in which Marx used to make his outlines, that is to say his style was careless, full of colloquial, often rough and humorous, expressions and phrases, interspersed with English and French technical terms, or with whole sentences or pages of English. The thoughts were jott

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; Page; PREFACE 7; TRANSLATOR'S NOTE SO; THE CIRCULATION OF CAPITAL PART I; THE MBT«ORJ"HOSES OP CAPITAL AND THRIR CYCLES; CHAPTER I-The Circulation o{ Money-Capital 31; Section I-First *~btage 3P=L' 32; Section II-Second Stage, Functions of Productive Capital 41; Section III-Third Stage, C-M" 40; Section IV-The Rotation as a Whole 58; CHAPTER II-The Rotation of Productive Capital 72; Section I-SimrJTfe Reproduction 77~~ 73; Section II-Accumulation and Reproduction on an Enlarged Scale SO; Section III-Accumulation ol Money 83; Section IV-Reserve Funds 96; CHAPTER IIL-The Circulation of CoromodLb^Capital 98; CHAPTER IV-The Three "Diagrams of the I'rocess of Circulation 114; CHAPTER V-The Time of Circulation 139; CHAPTER VI-The Expenses of Circulation 147; Section I,-Genuine Expenses of Circulation 147; 1 The Time ol Purchase and Sale 147; 2 Bookkeeping 131; 3 Money 153; Section II-Expenses of Storage 104; 1 General Formation of Supply 105;