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Capital Vol-1
by MARK K
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Summary
Chapter Summaries
Chapter 1: The Commodity
Chapter 2: Exchange
Chapter 3: Money, or the Circulation of Commodities
Chapter 4: The General Formula for Capital
Chapter 5: Contradictions in the General Formula
Chapter 6: The Buying and Selling of Labour-Power
Chapter 7: The Labour Process and the Valorization Process
Chapter 8: Constant Capital and Variable Capital
Chapter 9: The Rate of Surplus-Value
Chapter 10: The Working Day
Chapter 11: Rate and Mass of Surplus-Value
Chapter 12: The Concept of Relative Surplus-Value
Chapter 13: Co-operation
Chapter 14: The Division of Labour and Manufacture
Chapter 15: Machinery and Modern Industry
Chapter 16: Absolute and Relative Surplus Value
Chapter 17: Changes in the Magnitude of the Price of Labour-Power and in Surplus Value
Chapter 18: Different Formulae for the Rate of Surplus-Value
Chapter 19: The Transformation of the Value (and Respectively the Price) of Labour-Power into Wages
Chapter 20: Time-Wages
Chapter 21: Piece-Wages
Chapter 22: National Differences of Wages
Chapter 23: Simple Reproduction
Chapter 24: Conversion of Surplus-Value into Capital
Chapter 25: The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation
Chapter 26: The Secret of Primitive Accumulation
Chapter 27: Expropriation of the Agricultural Population from the Land
Chapter 28: Bloody Legislation Against the Expropriated, from the End of the 15th Century. Forcing Down of Wages by Acts of Parliament
Chapter 29: Genesis of the Capitalist Farmer
Chapter 30: Reaction of the Agricultural Revolution on Industry. Creation of the Home-Market for Industrial Capital
Chapter 31: Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist
Chapter 32: Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation
Chapter 33: The Modern Theory of Colonisation
Key Takeaways
The Dual Nature of Commodities
The Dual Nature of Labor
Socially Necessary Labor Time
Money as Universal Equivalent
Capital's Drive for Valorization
Labor-Power as a Commodity
Formal and Real Subsumption of Labor
Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value
The Industrial Reserve Army
Primitive Accumulation
Questions
What is surplus value and how does it fuel capitalist profit-making?
How is the value of labor-power determined and how does it generate profit for the capitalist?
How does the transformation of money into capital take place?
What are the contradictions inherent in the exchange of labor-power for wages?
Why is the length of the working day a source of conflict between capital and labor?
How did the industrial capitalist emerge and what was the significance of "primitive accumulation"?
How does commodity production lay the foundation for capitalism?
How does co-operation function under capitalism?
What is the impact of capital accumulation on the working class?
What is the role of the means of production in capitalist co-operation?
Summary
Chapter Summaries
Key Takeaways
Questions