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Marx's Capital

Capital Volume I: Class 9.67

Readings: Capital III, ch. 16, 21, 23, 27, 48, 49, 51; Capital II, ch. 6 This is a bit of divergence from Volume I, but just for one post. In this series of sections, Marx lays out several aspects of the circulation and distribution process of capitalist production. The two that are most salient here […]

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Capital Volume I: Class 5

Reading: Capital I, ch. 7-9 In my previous readings of Capital, I have glossed over some of Marx’s more subjective reactions to the economic processes he is describing, i.e. the fact that he hates them. The core purpose of Volume I is to analyze the extraction of surplus value from workers by capitalists and what […]