- What are wages?

- How are they determined?

- What determines the price of a commodity?

- What is the nature and process of capital increase?

- What is the relationship between wage labor and capital?

- What is the general law that defines the rise and fall of wages and profits?

- Why are the interests of capital and wage labor diametrically opposed?

- What effect do capitalist competitions have on the system itself and on the working class?

This small book written by Karl Marx during the revolutions that swept Europe in 1848 - 49 in the form of a series of articles in the 'New Rhenish Gazette' is the best and clearest introduction to the economic ideas of the great revolutionary.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]