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A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

Overview

A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (German: Zur Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie) is a book by Karl Marx, first published in 1859. The book is mainly a critique of political economy achieved by critiquing the writings of the leading theoretical exponents of capitalism at that time: these were the political economists, nowadays often referred to as the classical economists; Adam Smith (1723–90) and David Ricardo (1772–1823) are the foremost representatives of the genre.

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Philosophers who discussed A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

• Karl Marx
• Marx/Engels Collected Works

Related ideas

• Karl Marx
• Adam Smith
• Classical economics
• Relations of production
• Progress Publishers
• Political economy
• Historical materialism
• Capitalism
• David Ricardo

Place in the tradition

Part of Socialism.

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