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Capital: Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy Ben Fowkes, Ernest Mandel, Karl Marx
Publisher: Penguin Classics

That's why Marx's Capital has three volumes. Capital, Marx's critique of political economy constitutes a critique of the foundations of the bourgeois economists' understanding of capitalism, just as valid today as when it was written. Marx's CAPITAL is frequently condemned by people who've never read it, and lauded by other people who don't fully understand it. Posted in Nitpicking such things is not helpful; I will therefore not mention all of the minor points of disagreement or different emphases I would have, but outline a few of the central issues. The text for this course is Capital, Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx. [iii] Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, trans. 1 (London: Penguin Classics, 1990), 165. The brightest of that gang are now trying hard to bolt on a critique of political economy onto their defence of Lenin, Trotsky, Mao, Che, etc. Book Review: Michael Heinrich, “An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Marx's Capital”. Tear yourself away from the frauds and poseurs who would have you believe that it's enough to read the first Chapter of Volume I. This comes on top of a long tradition of high-quality research in Germany on Marx's critique of political economy. But a critque of political economy is not a critique of value. I surged because of the current economic crisis, rising from several hundred in 2007 to a few thousand in 2008. This open course consists of 13 video lectures of Professor Harvey's close chapter by chapter reading of Capital, Volume I. This essay is a political reading of the restructuring of the (re)production of labor-power in the global economy, but it is also a feminist critique of Marx that, in different ways, has been developing since the 1970s. The Trot accounting firm of is not yet a critique of political economy.