A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx; Maurice Dobb (Editor and Introduction); S. W. Ryazanskaya (Translator) - 1970

Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1970. Fifth printing (1984) of the 1970 edition. Very good book in a good cover. Burgundy cloth over boards with gilt title on spine. Binding is square and tight. Interior is pristine. Cover shows shelfwear, including a one inch tear on the upper rear near the spine. Frontis illustration of Marx. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 264 pages.

This is the second English translation of Marx's Zur Kritik der politischen Oekonomie (1859), the "germ" of Das Kapital. The Kritik was Marx's first attempt at a general statement of his theories, written following several years' research in the British Museum. Marx had initially planned a multi-volume work, but he was dissatisfied with it, and no further parts were written or published. It represents Marx's early attempts at the formulation of his economic theories and contains his treatment of the history of value and monetary theory. The preface outlines his classic formulation of historical materialism, and as such is the major Marxist contribution to the interpretation of history and political economy.