Capital, Vol. 1: Ch. 7-9

Class five in this series covers chapters 7 through 9 in “Part III: The Production of Absolute-Surplus Value.”  The chapters are titled (in order), “The Labor Process and the Valorization Process,” “Constant Capital and Variable Capital,” and “The Rate of Surplus Value.”
Harvey starts off his lecture by reviewing Marx’s arguments over Part I and II [...]

Capital, Vol. 1: Ch. 4-6

Class 4 covers chapters four through six of Capital, Vol. 1.  Chapters four through six make up Part II of the book entitled “The Transformation of Money Into Capital” and each chapter is titled (respectively) “The General Formula for Capital,” “Contradictions in the General Formula,” and “The Sale and Purchase of Labour-Power.”
One of the interesting [...]

Capital, Vol. 1: Ch. 3

Chapter three, titled “Money, or the Circulation of Commodities” is the last chapter in the Part 1 called “Commodities and Money.” David Harvey went over the entire chapter for his lecture as he said it was the most difficult chapter to comprehend and that most people who quite, or almost quite, reading Capital, Vol. [...]

Capital, Vol. I: Ch. 1 & 2

As I’ve stated in a previous post I’m re-reading Capital, Vol. 1 along with the lectures by David Harvey.  Every week I’ll post a blog on one or two things I found enlightening and/or interesting about my readings from that week and from the leasson.  I suggest to everyone that if anyone has been thinking [...]

Reading Capital with David Harvey

Originally posted at The Blog and the Bullet.
There is a great online series of Dr. David Harvey’s lectures on his class at City University of New York which cover the entire book of Capital, Vol. I.
Bhupinder blogs:
Listening to David Harvey’s lectures on Capital Vol 1 not only gave me a feeling that I was [...]