Timeline Saturday 14 September 1867

Events on Saturday 14 September 1867 2

• 1867 Das Kapital, Volume I Published Marx's magnum opus on capitalism The first volume of "Das Kapital: A Critique of Political Economy" was published in Hamburg in September 1867, the only volume completed and published during Marx's lifetime. It presented his labor theory of value, the concept of surplus value, and a systematic analysis of the capitalist mode of production, exploitation, and the tendency toward crisis. The book became the theoretical cornerstone of Marxist economics and socialist movements worldwide.
• 1867 Karl Marx publishes Das Kapital First volume of Marx's critique of capitalism Karl Marx published the first volume of Das Kapital in Hamburg, laying out his labor theory of value and critique of capitalist production. The remaining volumes were compiled and published after his death by Friedrich Engels. The work became a foundational text of socialist and communist political movements.