Capital
Capital as a social relation, accumulation process, and form of economic power.
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Analysis and articles
The Gig Economy: A Marxist Analysis of Wages and Work
An essay applying Marx's analysis of wages and competition to app-based work, including Uber and DoorDash.
Artificial Intelligence and Work: A Marxist Analysis
A Marxist analysis of artificial intelligence, ownership, machine productivity, and work, drawing on Marx and Engels.
Learning
From Money to Capital and Surplus Value
Module 4 of Capital and Political Economy: reconstruct the movement from money to capital and locate surplus value in the purchase and use of labor power.
Constant Capital, Surplus Value, and the Working Day
Module 5 of Capital and Political Economy: distinguish constant and variable capital, calculate the rate of surplus value, and analyze the working day as a contested relation.
Accumulation, Surplus Population, and Expropriation
Module 7 of Capital and Political Economy: connect accumulation to the relative surplus population and recover the historical separation presupposed by wage labor.
Circuits, Turnover, and Social Reproduction
Module 8 of Capital and Political Economy: follow money, productive, and commodity capital through time and test the conditions of social reproduction.
Profit, Competition, Credit, and Crisis
Module 9 of Capital and Political Economy: follow surplus value into profit, competition, interest, and credit without losing its origin in production.
Labor Power, Wages, and the Wage Relation
Week 3 of Marxism Fundamentals: diagram the wage exchange, distinguish labor power from labor, and explain why wage labor and capital reproduce one another.
Capital and Political Economy
Move from the commodity and money through exploitation, accumulation, circulation, competition, crisis, and finance.
Library and reference
Capital, Volume I
Marx's systematic critique of capitalist production, from the commodity and value-form through exploitation, accumulation, and primitive accumulation.
Value, Price and Profit
Marx's compact explanation of value, labor power, surplus value, profit, wages, and the strategic importance and limits of trade-union struggle.
Wage Labour and Capital
A concise introduction to wages, labor power, capital, competition, and the antagonistic relation between wage labor and capital.
Wage Labour and Capital
A concise introduction to wages, labor power, capital, competition, and the antagonistic relation between wage labor and capital.
Value, Price and Profit
Marx's compact explanation of value, labor power, surplus value, profit, wages, and the strategic importance and limits of trade-union struggle.
Capital, Volume I
Marx's systematic critique of capitalist production, from the commodity and value-form through exploitation, accumulation, and primitive accumulation.