The term was first used in Werner Sombart 's Krieg und Kapitalismus ( `` War and Capitalism '' , 1913 ) These ideas were first discussed in books The Communist Manifesto ( 1848 ) , in Grundrisse ( 1857 ) `` Volume IV '' of Das Kapital ( 1863 ) . These processes were first described in The Communist Manifesto ( Marx and Engels , 1848 ) and were expanded in Marx 's Grundrisse ( 1857 ) and `` Volume IV '' ( 1863 ) of Das Kapital . At its most basic , `` creative destruction '' ( German : schÃ pferische ZerstÃ rung ) describes the way in which capitalist economic development arises out of the destruction of some prior economic order , and this is largely the sense implied by the German Marxist sociologist Werner Sombart who has been credited with the first use of these terms in his work Krieg und Kapitalismus ( `` War and Capitalism '' , 1913 ) .