Understanding Marx's Capital Volume 1 Chapter 1 - Commodities (Sections 3-4)

Karl Marx's Capital Volume 1
Part 1 - Commodities and Money
Chapter 1 - The Commodity (sections 3 and 4)

00:00 - Section 3 The Value Form
00:12 - The Simple Form
02:23 - The Expanded Form
03:03 - The General Form
04:08 - The Money Form
06:08 - Section 4 The Fetishism of Commodities

This video is a look at the last 2 sections in Chapter 1, Part 1 of Marx's Capital, The Commodity. Marx is investigating the source of Value by examining Exchange-Value relations between commodities and how Value is relative. He also discusses his concept of the Fetishism of Commodities.



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[brandon]

God damn, I'm currently loving Capital, but ffs, Marx definitely could have explained all this without writing an absolute mammoth of text.

[BluSmoke]

This clears it up much better than David Harvey's companion book did for me. Great work!

[zoe]

Thank you so much for these fantastic uploads. I am using them as a companion to reading the book itself and your explanations are invaluable. The one request I have is that the back ground music at a lower volume as I find it distracting.

[altyrrell]

General comment for the series - the music is much louder than the rest of the video. I hope there's a way to balance it out.

[jaysonfabiyi]

Thank you for this. I was stuck on the second half of chapter 1, this cleared up a lot

[chadmarx]

Hey man, awesome work. Been spending more than a month already trying to understand and derive even the smallest implications i can get from Chapter 1 (and still am missing a lot of it unfortunately, even with 3 companion books). Can you recommend a beginner-friendly, but in depth paper/essay/discussion/etc on section 4? I really want to nail it

[makkreacts]

Woa Buddy! my eyes are peeled back! Thankyou

[sarys]

thanks for helping me understand the last bit, was bit more fuzzy

[boycefranks]

The music is a constant distraction. There is no need for it.