The first volume studies the production process of capital and analyzes the production of surplus value. The second volume studies the circulation process of capital and analyzes the realization of surplus value on the basis of capital production process. The third volume tells the general process of capitalist production and studies the specific forms of capital and surplus value respectively.
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Das Kapital clearly takes capitalist relations of production as the research object, takes materialist dialectics as the guidance, and uses scientific abstract methods to study, thus scientifically establishing the object and method of political economy for the first time.
On the basis of criticizing the value theory of bourgeois classical political economy, Das Kapital creatively analyzed the duality of labor and established a scientific theory of labor value, thus laying the theoretical foundation of political economy.
Xi Jinping's "Xi Jinping's Speech to Commemorate the 200th Anniversary of Marx's Birthday: Das Kapital" 1867 was published, which is the thickest and richest work of Marxism and known as "the Bible of the working class".