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Capital Volume 1 Part 1 Chapter 1 Section 1 Post 2

February 18th, 2010 · 9 Comments

Page 36: “Exchange-value, at first sight, presents itself as a quantitative relation, as the proportion in which values in use of one sort are exchanged for for those of another sort, a relation constantly changing with time and place.”
Since I was just discussing this with Scott in the previous post, I’ll quote myself, so I [...]

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Capital Volume 1 Part 1 Chapter 1 Section 1 Post 1

February 16th, 2010 · 4 Comments

Part 1 is “Commodities and Money.”  Chapter 1 is “Commodities.”  Section 1: “The two factors of a commodity: use-value and value (the substance of value and the magnitude of value)”
Page 35: “The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as ‘an immense accumulation of commodities,’ it’s unit being [...]

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Capital Volume 1 Prefaces and Afterwords

February 14th, 2010 · 6 Comments

Volume 1 of Capital was first published in 1865.  I am using the 1967 edition by International Publishers Co, Inc., including the changes made by Engels for the fourth edition, 1887.  LofC# 67-19754, ISBN 0-7178-00170-2.
Volume 1 is: “A critical analysis of capitalist production”
The first requirement for human history is human beings.  That is, we [...]

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