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Capital Chapter 13: Machinery

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47:28·2026·undergraduate level

Devoted entirely to Marx's Chapter 13, this lecture meticulously analyzes the specific functions and consequences of machinery within capitalist production. It details how machinery transforms the labor process and worker experience.

What does machinery do?

A chapter by chapter study of Marx’s powerful analysis in Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1. This book from 1872 is still the best guide to the predatory economic and social system within which we live. The book solves five basic mysteries in our social world. The mysteries are: why social classes struggle against one another, why human beings are in the thrall of things, how a quantity of money turns into more money without seeming to add anything, why some people are forced to work and the more they work the less they make proportional to their effort, and finally, and why it is so hard to transform the system for the better.

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