Introduction, Capital Chapter 1: The Commodity
57:27Capital Chapter 1: The Commodity, Part 2
56:25Capital Chapter 1: The Commodity, Part 3
50:05Capital Chapters 2-4: Exchange, Money, Capital
49:48Capital Chapters 2-4: Exchange, Money, Capital, Part 2
50:07Capital Chapters 5-9: Absolute Surplus-Value, Valorization, the Working Day
45:20Capital Chapters 5-9: Absolute Surplus-Value, Valorization, the Working Day, Part 2
49:59Capital Chapter 8: The Working Day
39:57Capital Chapters 10-13: Relative Surplus-Value, Division of Labor, Machinery, Part 1
50:20Capital Chapters 10-13: Relative Surplus-Value, Division of Labor, Machinery, Part 2
49:24Capital Chapter 12 & 13: Changes in the Division of Labor, Machinery
45:51Capital Chapter 13: Machinery
47:28Capital Chapters 14-16: Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value
47:41Capital Chapter 15: Increase and Decrease in LP and SV & Chapters 17-20: Wages
51:03Capital Chapters 17-20: Wages; Chapters 21-24: Accumulation, Reproduction
50:59Capital Chapters 21-24: Accumulation, Reproduction
51:49Capital Chapter 23, The General Law of Capital Accumulation
47:42Capital Chapter 24, So-Called Original Accumulation
48:02Capital Chapter 8: The Working Day
Focusing on Marx's Chapter 8, this lecture scrutinizes the political and economic struggles over the length of the working day and its direct impact on absolute surplus-value. It unpacks the determination of labor time.
How do fights over the length of the working day affect the capital system? What is absolute surplus value?
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.
Capital Chapters 5-9: Absolute Surplus-Value, Valorization, the Working Day, Part 2
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