A Companion to Marx's Capital

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The radical geographer guides us through the classic text of political economy.“My aim is to get you to read a book by Karl Marx called Capital, Volume 1, and to read it on Marx’s own terms…” The biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression has generated a surge of interest in Marx’s work in the effort to understand the origins of our current predicament. For nearly forty years, David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, becoming one of the world’s most foremost Marx scholars. Based on his recent lectures, this current volume aims to bring this depth of learning to a broader audience, guiding first-time readers through a fascinating and deeply rewarding text. A Companion to Marx’s Capital offers fresh, original and sometimes critical interpretations of a book that changed the course of history and, as Harvey intimates, may do so again. Introduction......Page 5 Preface......Page 7 Contents......Page 8 1. Commodities and Exchange......Page 9 2. Money......Page 61 3. From Capital to Labor-Power......Page 90 4. The Labor Process and the Production of Surplus-Value......Page 111 5. The Working Day......Page 137 6. Relative Surplus-Value......Page 165 7. What Technology Reveals......Page 191 8. Machinery and Large-Scale Industry......Page 215 9. From Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value to the Accumulation of Capital......Page 238 10. Capital Accumulation......Page 264 11. The Secret of Primitive Accumulation......Page 283 Reflections and Prognoses......Page 308 Index......Page 337