#12: BLOODY CAPITAL (Ch. 26-33)

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Apr 26, 202100:54:57Education

Our twelfth episode studies the last part of the book, chapters 26-33, which Marx begins by critiquing bourgeois political economy’s concept of “primitive accumulation.” Throughout the book so far, Marx has assumed that...

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