#12: BLOODY CAPITAL (Ch. 26-33)
Our twelfth episode studies the last part of the book, chapters 26-33, which Marx begins by critiquing bourgeois political economy’s concept...
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Reading Capital With Comrades
An interactive, chapter-by-chapter class on Karl Marx's 'Capital' Volume 1 for all skill levels, taught in 12 episodes by socialist educators.
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12 episodes
#11: CAPITAL’S TENDENCIES (Ch. 25)
Our eleventh episode concentrates on chapter 25, where Marx synthesizes his findings so far to articulate some general laws (or tendencies)...
#10: REPRODUCTION (Ch. 23-24)
Our tenth episode marks a transition from examining the production of capital on an individual scale to capitalism as a totality that contin...
#9: COLLECTIVE LABOR (Ch. 16-22)
Our ninth episode reviews chapters 16-22, starting with a discussion of the commonly misunderstood concept of “productive labor.” We clarify...
#8: TECHNOLOGY (Ch. 15)
Reading chapter 15 on machinery and modern industry, episode 8 focuses on the relationship between technology, capital, and class struggle....
#7: DIS-UNITING CLASS (Ch. 11-14)
Our seventh episode covers chapters 11-14. After covering the rate and mass of surplus value, we examine how capitalists can increase surplu...
#6: CLASS STRUGGLE (Ch. 10)
Focusing on chapter 10, our sixth episode locates class struggle as the motor of capitalism and as that which determines the rate of exploit...
#5: EXPLOITATION (Ch. 7-9)
Our fifth episode covers chapters 7-9, which move us deeper into (absolute) surplus-value and the exploitation of labor power. We begin by d...
#4: MR. MONEYBAGS (Ch. 4-6)
Our fourth episode covers chapters 4-6, where Marx offers the first definitions of capital, surplus-value, labor power, as well as the relat...
#3: MONEY (Ch. 2-3)
Our third episode takes up chapters 2 and 3 on exchange and money, where the C-M-C circuit makes its first appearance. After setting up the...
#2: VALUE (Ch. 1)
Our second episode covers the first chapter on “commodities,” where Marx begins laying the conceptual building blocks for his investigation....
#1: REVOLUTIONARY READING (Prefaces & Afterwords)
We begin our study of Capital, vol. 1 by discussing what it means to read, study, and apply the book as comrades in the struggle for sociali...