Marx is a brilliant economist. He was an unsurpassed expert on the general problems and details of the economy of his era, the entire history of the national economy on a global scale and in individual countries. He creatively mastered all the best that his predecessors had, including such outstanding economists as V. Petty, A. Smith, D. Ricardo, but did not repeat them, did not blindly follow them, but took deeper than them, saw beyond them, made such discoveries that were inaccessible to them by virtue of the insufficiency of talent itself, the limitations of bourgeois horizons, not least because of the new economic realities, which in the time of Marx were already different, more mature.
This book is a classic work of economics, written from the standpoint of the labor theory of value. In it, the author defined the concept of value as an expression of socially necessary labor for the production of goods, and gave a vivid description of the capitalist society of the XIX century. The work of K. Marx is the completion of classical political economy, it had a global impact on the course of the historical process in the 20th century.