PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION, pp. 89-93

1. What does Marx say is difficult in all sciences?

2. In economic theory, what takes the place of microscopes?

3. What is the “economic cell-form” of bourgeois society (i.e. of capitalism)?

4. What does Marx say that he “examines in this book”?

5. How does Marx describe the differences between England and Germany?

6. What is the “ultimate aim of this work”?

7. How does Marx’s theory deal with individual capitalists?

8. What do you think Marx meant by “the development of the economic formation of society is viewed as a process of natural history”?

POSTFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION, pp. 94-103

1. Under what conditions can bourgeois political economy remain a science?

2. What does Marx say happened to bourgeois political economy after 1830?

3. What criticism of Capital was made by the Revue Positiviste?
What was Marx’s reply?

4. Summarize the long review of Capital quoted on pp. 100-02.
Try to identify specific aspects of Marx’s logical method that are mentioned.

5. How does Marx describe the difference between the “method of inquiry” and the
“method of presentation’?

6. Summarize Marx’s comments on Hegel.