Marx’s Capital
Karl Marx’s three-volume magnum opus on political economy (Das Kapital, 1867-1894), centrally concerned with analyzing the capitalist mode of production, including commodity fetishism, surplus value, and the dynamics of capital accumulation and crisis. It is frequently referenced as a foundational text by the Frankfurt School theorists and other thinkers cited in the corpus.
Claims that use this term
- Adorno demanded Benjamin ground his commodity-soul thesis in Marx’s Capital chapter on fetishism.
- Adorno first seriously studied Marx’s Capital only in 1938, while in American exile
- Grossmann derived capitalism’s collapse directly from Marx’s Capital volumes
- Capital functions as the protagonist-subject of Marx’s Capital