Marx wrote in a letter sent to Engels on 30 April 1868: "In Book 1 we content ourselves with the assumption that if in the self-expansion process £100 becomes £110, the latter will find already in existence in the market the elements into which it will change once more. Moreover, workers appear in Volume II essentially as buyers of consumer goods and therefore as sellers of the commodity labour power, rather than producers of value and surplus-value, although this latter quality established in Volume I remains the solid foundation on which the whole of the unfolding analysis is based. Its dramatis personae, not so much the worker and the industrialist (as in Volume I), but rather the money owner and money lender, the wholesale merchant, the trader and the entrepreneur or functioning capitalist. In this book, the main ideas behind the marketplace are to be found, namely how value and surplus-value are realized. The Reproduction and Circulation of the Aggregate Social Capital.The Metamorphoses of Capital and Their Circuits.It was prepared by Friedrich Engels from notes left by Karl Marx and published in 1885. Buch II: Der Cirkulationsprocess des Kapitals) is the second of three volumes of Capital: Critique of Political Economy. Kritik der politischen Ökonomie Zweiter Band. Volume II: The Process of Circulation of Capital ( German: Das Kapital.
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