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Lohnarbeit und Kapital

by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

"**Wage Labour and Capital**" (German: *Lohnarbeit und Kapital*) is an 1847 economics essay by Karl Marx, first published in articles in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung in April 1849. It is widely considered the precursor to Marx’s influential treatise *Das Kapital*. It is commonly paired with Marx's 1865 speech *Value, Price and Profit*. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_Labour_and_Capital))