Musto, Marcello2021-09-032021-09-032018-01Marcello Musto (2018) The Writing of Capital: Genesis and Structure of Marx’s Critique of Political Economy, Critique, 46:1, 11-26, DOI: 10.1080/03017605.2017.1412623.0301-7605https://doi.org/10.1080/03017605.2017.1412623http://hdl.handle.net/10315/38546The debate on the structure of Marx's Capital, and on the probable explanations for the changes he made to the initial ‘six books plan’, has always been a relevant topic in Marxist studies. This article provides a more exhaustive account of the genesis of Capital, on the basis of a revisitation of Marx's intellectual biography during the 1860s, and of the publication of all preparatory manuscripts of Marx's magnum opus, recently appeared in the MEGA2, the historical-critical edition of the complete works of Marx and Engels.enThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Critique on 16 Jan 2018, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/03017605.2017.1412623.Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 InternationalMarxcapitalsix books plantheories of surplus valueMEGA2Articlehttps://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcso20/currenthttps://www.tandfonline.com/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03017605.2017.1412623