Das Kapital: Interpretations First Edition

I. Preface to First Edition

I. Preface First Edition (discusses Politics and Economic Development by comparison to other countries)

and social and political relationships.

"We suffer not only from the living but from the dead" Le mort

A-1. The ruling class manipulates men to dominate the working industry, depriving women and children of access to career opportunities and honing skills that can contribute to society themselves while the society tolerates this traditional system.

A-2. The progress of economic development has no shortcuts, it requires time to grow; irreversible and in a constant forward motion, however, the development of an economy can lessen the labor pain of workers. Humans are subjectively striving to climb to the top of the hierarchy (Socioeconomic Status), humans create the intertwining fabrics of history regardless of their socioeconomic status.

A-3. Globalization in the West in the 1800s brought radical change to the economic system of England and the US, the latter; the economic system is malleable and constantly changing. The ruling classes cannot prevent this change from occurring.

II. Postface to the Second Edition

A. Labor; Material value is determined by the quality of labor/labor time. (Exchanged value)

B. Economists were kept shut by the elite businessmen not allowing them to interfere with the Economic State Harmful effects of Capitalism on the Political economy, The bourgeois views Capitalism to hold absolute power, and ultimate form of social production (harmful to the working class since they are exploited with discrepancy of profit based on their labor). Capitalism manifests class struggle for it to function.

C. Manifestation of excessive political power by the superficial elite and bourgeois, while they take advantage of the political system, The proletariat are plotting revolution.

D. Citations from other criticisms of Marx's ideology critique perceptions are split into two favoring Marx's modern communism and others suggest he is too ideological, "dealing economic problems metaphysically" (abstract).

E. Laws of Phenomenon deals with the existence of a civilization regardless of the civilians have absolute consciousness to the civilization their actions become part of the natural history, Furthermore, Human consciousness to the economic state is bounded by Governmental entity and the person's individual thinking. The series of historical succession to every civilization is a stage of economic development. A sudden spark in the seemingly linear history prompts the individual to gain surmounting consciousness within the realms of society. Marx denied that historical development was ever the same, instead, he said there will be differences in people passing the laws, and the succeeding people being subject to other laws even going by far that the population, social production, human quality will continually evolve to superior quality as the same to the biological nature of a human being or the evolution of our biological aspects. The death of a social organism will seed into a higher level of the social organism.

F. Hegelianism; The ability of humans to think "The idea" manifests in the external world, thus humans create the world by forming ideas of cognitive capability. On Contraire Marx quotes that "The ideal is but a material world, reflected in the mind of man and translated into forms of thought" We see the world with the quintessential society that we are befitting in our world. And these are translated into words that we speak and letters that we write.

G. Talks about their time in Germany "fashion" as the way they carry themselves (possibly presenting arguments) during the time by being dialectic, a pop culture; that the bourgeois despised the most.