In September 1867, the first volume of Capital, the main work of Karl Marx, the founder of scientific communism, was published in Germany.
He analyzed the regularities of the capitalist mode of production, formulated the theory of surplus value, predicted the constant growth of capitalist savings by reducing wages, increased exploitation of the working class, property inequality.
For example, in the USSR, the book was considered the foundation of Marxist-Leninist philosophy.
Many of Marx's conclusions are still relevant today, for example, that labor is a commodity, profit–making is the driving force of capitalism.
But not all economists share Marx's teaching about the indispensable replacement of capitalism with communism and other postulates of the thinker.
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