A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
Karl Marx
Marx's 1859 first draft of his economic theory, where he analyzes the commodity and money before writing Capital. Its preface holds the most compact summary he ever gave of historical materialism, the idea that the economic base shapes law, politics and ideas.
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