An overview of where Classical Political Economy and the solution to its driving problems stood when Marx began his engagement with it in the 1850s. Topics include: Marx and Political Economy; Political Economy, Classical and Vulgar; Capitalism as a Historical Mode of Production; Civil Society … ; … and its Volatile Expansionism; Value, the Unseen Regulator; Distribution; Biological Economy, the Real Dismal Science; Ricardo’s Antinomies; and Conclusion.
