Understanding Capital
@ucapital.bsky.social
An Occasionally Illustrated Read-Along Podcast for Capital Volume 1 https://understandingcapital.github.io/
Chapter 2 - The Exchange Process! The opposition between exchange value and value continues to do weird stuff - like developing a requirement to be represented externally! Wanna get what Marx is talking about? Tune in for chapter 2!
Episode 5 A - Chapter 2: The Exchange Process [p. 60-69]
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Episode 4 A! The Fetish Character of the Commodity: Social relations between people? Quantitative relations between things? What's going on with society in capitalism?!
Episode 4 A - Chapter 1.4: The Fetish Character of the Commodity [p. 47-59]
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Episode 4 A! The Fetish Character of the Commodity: Social relations between people? Quantitative relations between things? What's going on with society in capitalism?!
Episode 4 A - Chapter 1.4: The Fetish Character of the Commodity [p. 47-59]
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Episode 3A is out! We follow Marx in exploring the strange nature of value, and human labor in the abstract This week we've got a number of illustrations to help getting the core concepts of value (and its form of appearance, exchange value) and abstract labor right!
Episode 3 A - Chapter 1.3 (until the Fetish Character) [p. 24-46]
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Episode 2B - where I talk to @m.sappir.net about chapters 1.1 and 1.2 of Capital!
Episode 2 B - With Michael Sappir [p. 13-24]
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Got some more cutesy illustrations in the works! This time for chapter 5, the labor process & the valorization process!
Got some more cutesy illustrations in the works! This time for chapter 5, the labor process & the valorization process!
Happy pubversary to Volume 1 of Capital! If you find it daunting to start reading - Understanding Capital is here to help! An occasionally illustrated read-along podcast! understandingcapital.github.io/posts/E01A/
Episode 1 A - Intro & Chapter 1 (first two pages only!) [p. 5-14]
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Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 4w agohappy pubversary for Karl Marx's Das Kapital, Sept 14, 1867! open thread of good C21 critiques of p.e. and more:
Having a great time in Chicago at the @socialismconference.org ! Thought I'd take this opportunity to let you all know that I've been working on a read-along podcast for Marx's Capital Volume 1! It even comes with cute illustrations in the show notes!
Episode 1 A - Intro & Chapter 1 (first two pages only!) [p. 5-14]
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In Episode 2A, we're following Marx in looking at the two sides of the commodity: What it's good for, and what it can be exchanged for -- and what that tells us about the double nature of human labor under capitalism! Pages 13-24 (Ch 1.1 & 1.2) of the new Reitter translation
Episode 2 A - Chapters 1.1 & 1.2 [p. 13-24]
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"The wealth of societies dominated by the capitalist mode of production appears in the form of an “enormous accumulation of commodities.” The individual commodity appears as the elementary form of that wealth. Hence our investigation begins by analyzing the commodity." (Capital, Volume 1, Ch. 1)
Episode 1 B of Understanding Capital is out! Listen to me and @m.sappir.net from Chicago DSA chat about use value, abstractions, the commodity form, and what it means to engage with Marx's critical project today!
Episode 1 B - With Michael Sappir [5-14]
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Makes you wonder what kind of economic system might make it *weird* to think of objects as systematically related to the people who produced them
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