Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 33

Author: Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin Works)
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Publish Date: 2004-06-30
Features: This volume contains the content of Marx's Economic Manuscripts of 1861-1863, specifically Notebooks VI-X, which are the beginning part of Theories of Surplus Value. Theories of Surplus Value holds significant importance in the 1861-1863 manuscripts. In this volume, a substantial portion is dedicated to Adam Smith's theories. Smith was one of the main representatives of classical political economy in Britain. He created a relatively complete theoretical system of bourgeois classical political economy. "In Adam Smith, political economy had developed into something of a whole, and its scope had, to a certain extent, taken shape." Compared to the Physiocrats, Smith advanced bourgeois classical political economy to a new stage and, on many issues, reached the limit of objective understanding within bourgeois economic science. When compiling this volume, the translation of this part of Theories of Surplus Value was revised based on the German original of the second part, volume 3, issue 2 of the Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe (1977 historical-critical edition).