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Part 1: “Commodities and Money”, Part 1, Chapter 1: “Commodities”

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Part 2: “The Transformation of Money into Capital”

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Part 3: “The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value”, Part 3, Chapter 7: “The Labour Process and the Valorization Process” - Part 3, Chapter 10: “The Working Day”

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Part 4: “The Transformation of Money into Capital” - Part 4, Chapter 15: “Machinery and Large-Scale Industry”

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Part 5: “The Production of Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value” - Part 5, Chapter 17: “Changes of Magnitude in the Price of Labour-Power and in Surplus-Value”

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Part 6: “Wages”

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Part 7: “The Process of Accumulation of Capital” - Part 7, Chapter 24: “The Transformation of Surplus-Value into Capital”

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Part 8: “So-Called Primitive Accumulation”

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Appendix: “Results of the Immediate Process of Production”

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