Reading Capital With Comrades
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
#12: BLOODY CAPITAL (Ch. 26-33)
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our twelfth episode studies the last part of the book, chapters 26-33, which Marx begins by critiquing bourgeois political economy’s concept of “p...
#11: CAPITAL’S TENDENCIES (Ch. 25)
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our eleventh episode concentrates on chapter 25, where Marx synthesizes his findings so far to articulate some general laws (or tendencies) of capital...
#10: REPRODUCTION (Ch. 23-24)
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our tenth episode marks a transition from examining the production of capital on an individual scale to capitalism as a totality that continually repr...
#9: COLLECTIVE LABOR (Ch. 16-22)
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our ninth episode reviews chapters 16-22, starting with a discussion of the commonly misunderstood concept of “productive labor.” We clarify Marx’...
#8: TECHNOLOGY (Ch. 15)
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Reading chapter 15 on machinery and modern industry, episode 8 focuses on the relationship between technology, capital, and class struggle. After exam...
#7: DIS-UNITING CLASS (Ch. 11-14)
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our seventh episode covers chapters 11-14. After covering the rate and mass of surplus value, we examine how capitalists can increase surplus value (a...
#6: CLASS STRUGGLE (Ch. 10)
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
#5: EXPLOITATION (Ch. 7-9)
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our fifth episode covers chapters 7-9, which move us deeper into (absolute) surplus-value and the exploitation of labor power. We begin by distinguish...
#4: MR. MONEYBAGS (Ch. 4-6)
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our fourth episode covers chapters 4-6, where Marx offers the first definitions of capital, surplus-value, labor power, as well as the relationship be...
#3: MONEY (Ch. 2-3)
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
#2: VALUE (Ch. 1)
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our second episode covers the first chapter on “commodities,” where Marx begins laying the conceptual building blocks for his investigation. We co...
#1: REVOLUTIONARY READING (Prefaces & Afterwords)
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We begin our study of Capital, vol. 1 by discussing what it means to read, study, and apply the book as comrades in the struggle for socialism in the ...