A Companion to Capital (21st Century University Economics Series Textbooks)

Author: Zhang Tongyu, Li Yuanxian, et al
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Publish Date: 2004-11-02
Features: Regarding the research object and purpose of The Capital, Marx pointed out: "What I intend to investigate in this book is the capitalist mode of production, as well as the production relations and exchange relations corresponding to it." "The ultimate purpose of this book is to reveal the economic laws of modern society." As for the meaning of "capitalist mode of production" in the research object, academia both domestically and internationally holds different understandings. The system of The Capital is "an artistic whole," and its structure is "a glorious achievement of science." The Capital takes the capitalist mode of production as the foundation of its research, capital as the subject, surplus value as the center, the development of capital's internal contradictions as the main thread, and the revelation of the economic laws of capitalist society as the research purpose. Guided by the scientific narrative method of abstract categories rising to concrete categories, the entire theoretical system reveals the special social and historical nature of capitalist economic relations and their historical trends of development through the evolution of contradictions, the progression of categories, and the transformation of laws.