Capital

Introduction by the Trotskyist Ernest Mandel The Penguin edition has the merit of including Results of the Immediate Process of Production, often described as the original concluding chapter of Capital. This text contains Marx’s important discussion of the concepts of the real and formal subsumption of capital. Readers of the Fowkes translation should be aware of the fact that, although it incorporates some of the text from the 1875 French edition of Capital, held in high esteem by Marx and described by him as “possess[ing] a scientific value independent of the original,” it adheres closely to the fourth German edition as represented by the Marx-Engels Werke text.