Class description: In Part 8 of the book, Marx turns to a brief historical analysis and critique of bourgeois political-economy's "origin story" of capital. Throughout the book so far, Marx has assumed that the conditions of...
labor-power
Marx’s “Capital:” Class 4 (Capital and labor-power)
Class description: In this class we get at the first definitions of capital, labor-power, and surplus-value. Picking up on the introduction of money into the exchange process and the contradictions between use-value and...