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The first volume of *Capital*, *The Process of Production*, is the best-known and most widely read part of this monumental work. However, the first volume is based upon and presupposes the theorems formulated in the second and third volumes, particularly with regard to the recurring crises of capitalism. The third volume, ‘The General Process of Political Economy’, deals with the distribution of economic surplus and capitalism’s inherent propensity for crisis. ‘Once upon a time, *Capital* was the foremost comprehensive account of modernity, capitalism and wage labour of its day. I would like to ask whether ‘Capital’, despite all our developments in social science theory and all our advances in various social science disciplines, is perhaps still the most comprehensive theory of modern man’s contradictory and institutionally embedded living conditions.” From Mats Lindberg’s introduction to the sixth edition of the first volume of ‘Capital’ in 2013.