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A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
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The present translation has been made from the second edition of the “Zur Kritik der Politischen Oekonomie,” published by Karl Kautsky in 1897 with slight changes from the original edition of 1859; changes that had been indicated by Marx on the margins of his own copy of the book.…
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- AuthorKarl Marx
- SourceProject Gutenberg #46423
- Length85,293 words · 5h 41m of reading
- Chapters5
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-21
Contents
5 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01CHAPTER I.
- 02CHAPTER II.
- 03Y commodities = X ounces of gold
- 04Critique of Political Economy.[156
- 05AUTHORS QUOTED IN ZUR KRITIK
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