Reading Capital With Comrades Podcast
1) #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 of “primitive accumulation.” Throughout the book so far, Ma...Show More
2) #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) of capitalist accumulation. We cover the different compositi...Show More
3) #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 continually reproduces and expands. We begin with the introduction...Show More
4) #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 Marx’s use of this concept and the role it plays in Marxist...Show More
5) #8: TECHNOLOGY (Ch. 15)
Reading chapter 15 on machinery and modern industry, episode 8 focuses on the relationship between technology, capital, and class struggle. After examining Marx’s method of approaching technological t...Show More
6) #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 surplus value (and therefore exploitation) without making the work...Show More
7) #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 exploitation and the value of labor power. By examining how the “no...Show More
8) #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 distinguishing labor in general from labor power as a commodi...Show More
9) #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 relationship between the legal superstructure and the economic ba...Show More
10) #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 juridical conditions of market exchange, we look at how mone...Show More