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Marx's Capital

Capital Volume II: Class 4

Reading: Capital II, ch. 7-11 Part II, The Turnover of Capital, begins with a description of fixed and fluid capital. These are the two forms of capital found in productive capital. To review, productive capital is one of the three forms capital takes as it moves through the economy. Productive capital is that capital found […]

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Marx's Capital

Capital Volume I: Class 4

Reading: Capital I, ch. 4-6; Capital II, ch. 1; Capital I, “Appendix: Results of the Immediate Process of Production”; Capital I, ch. 19-21; Grundrisse, pp. 239-272; Limits to Capital, pp. 20-24 This week’s reading brought to the front of my mind Marx’s dialectical method. Throughout the book, he uses a plethora of literary devices to […]