Karl Marx's das Kapital Explained

Karl Marx revealed the Capitalist system in all its harsh dimensions in his classic, Das Kapital, 150 years ago. But who can read it? This unique book brings Marx's concepts and conclusions to life in a fun and eye-popping discussion that everyone can understand.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lim
Otros Autores: , Seungsoo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Algora Publishing, 2020.
Temas:
Political and social views.
Political and social views
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Introduction
  • Lecture 1
  • Why Should We Study Das Kapital?
  • Criticizing Das Kapital without knowing its content
  • Why do we need to understand Das Kapital now?
  • What is capitalism?
  • Relations of production are what differentiates social-economic formations
  • Slave-owner-slave: relations of production in a slave society
  • Lord-serf: the relations of production in a feudal society
  • Capitalist-worker: relations of production in a capitalist society
  • Social formations and the situation of working people
  • Is a capitalist society really exploitative?
  • Lecture 2
  • Capitalism Turns Everything into a Commodity
  • Start with Commodities in studying capitalism
  • Capitalism turns everything into a commodity
  • Use value vs Exchange value
  • How is the commodities exchange value decided?
  • Marx's labor theory of value
  • Working time, the core element that determines exchange ratio
  • Lecture 3
  • Money Has Turned into Capital
  • The birth of money is inevitable
  • What is money and what is capital?
  • Where does profit come from?
  • The circulation process cannot create value
  • Lecture 4
  • Profit Comes from Time Taken Away from Workers
  • The value of labor power as a commodity
  • How does capital grow its size?
  • Where does profit come from?
  • Surplus value and commodity value
  • A wage is the price of labor power
  • Lecture 5
  • Why Do Companies Like It If You Work Late?
  • Necessary labor and surplus labor
  • Producing absolute surplus value
  • Lecture 6
  • Technological Development Furthers Exploitation
  • Producing relative surplus value
  • Development of productive forces and relative surplus value
  • Capitalist use of machines
  • Lecture 7
  • Performance-Related Pay? It Strengthens Self-Exploitation
  • Performance-related pay is like something falling into your lap
  • Creating more profit in the same amount of time
  • The rate of exploitation, and the ratio of necessary labor time and surplus labor time
  • Lecture 8
  • Selfish People are Adapted to a Capitalist Society
  • Is human nature evil?
  • Social structure forms human psychology
  • Fetishism, the idea that money can buy anything, is a phenomenon peculiar to capitalism
  • Lecture 9
  • How Does a Capitalist Use Profit?
  • Simple reproduction and expanded reproduction
  • Organic composition of capital
  • Who should own the means of production?
  • Lecture 10
  • Capitalists Fight over Surplus Value
  • Turnover time of capital and annual rate of profit
  • Division of roles of capital and surplus value
  • Existence determines consciousness
  • Workers are responsible for changing the world
  • Lecture 11
  • Monopoly Capital and Economic Crisis Are Indispensable to a Capitalist Society
  • Monopoly capital, small and medium capital, and workers
  • Nationalization and democratic operation of companies
  • Capitalism and economic crisis
  • Dramatic moments of the capitalist contradictions
  • Lecture 12
  • Rate of Profit Tends to Fall

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