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# Global Impact Innovative Insights Comprehensive Analysis Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1

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> 📖 Dive into the depths of economic thought!

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## Key Features

- • **Engaging Read:** Dive into a compelling narrative that combines theory with real-world application.
- • **Timeless Relevance:** Discover insights that resonate in today's socio-economic landscape.
- • **Scholarly Authority:** Written by the father of modern economics, Karl Marx.
- • **Critical Perspectives:** Challenge conventional wisdom and explore revolutionary ideas.
- • **Transformative Knowledge:** Unlock the secrets of political economy with this foundational text.

## Overview

Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1 is a seminal work by Karl Marx that explores the intricacies of capitalism, labor, and economic systems. This book lays the groundwork for understanding the dynamics of wealth and power, making it essential reading for anyone interested in economics, politics, or social theory.

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great overview of Capitalism
*by J***K on May 25, 2015*

Great overview of Capitalism. This is not a book about Communism. Although some of his criticism of Capitalism comes through, for the most part he holds himself in check and writes a scholarly analysis. What I really enjoyed was the historical context his footnotes provide. Never realized how big of a battle the 8 hour workday was. How much of a discussion among Industrial Theorist on how to keep a workforce in the factories and how much to pay them. Many of the arguments of the 1800's eerily reflect contemporary arguments about the workforce. A good read if a bit wordy.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Still the most important book you'll ever read; ignore David Harvey's companion
*by C***H on September 12, 2018*

I'm not a fan of the font and spacing of this version, it's quite tiny.Marx is one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented thinkers, but he is also a very clear writer -- makes it all the more remarkable that people like David Harvey are able to pass themselves off as experts on Marx. If you do end up getting Harvey's companion, compare what he says about value to the first chapter of Capital and the shortcomings are quite clear.Regardless, the qualitative aspect of value is the most overlooked, yet most important, part of Marx's work; pay close attention to the fact that exchange value is a commodity's being immediately exchangeable, and that exchange value is the phenomenal form of value: commodities are immediately exchangeable with each other because they are both values, and, because exchange value is the *only way they can express themselves as values,* there is no value outside of exchange, although exchange value and value as distinct from each other. Neither should this be read as the magnitude of value being created in exchange, only that exchange is where the thing takes on the form of value and becomes a commodity (remember, it's when and only when looked at as crystals of the social substance that they are Values).Treating value as something that was already in an object, in addition to being pure fetishism, causes problems -- ie, if things only take on the form of value in exchange, where commodities show their two-fold nature of being use-values and values, then it makes sense to say a mud pie has no value, regardless of concrete labor time invested, because it is not an object of utility. Conversely, if value happens in the production process, countering the mud pie argument comes across as an arbitrary exclusion. Furthermore, it overlooks Marx's insight that value is the particular form social labor takes in capitalist society, where relations between people have to take on the form of relations between things in exchange -- the form of value; fetishism is not about false consciousness, but about how our relationships *actually are, and have to be in commodity society.*The first chapter is the most difficult and the most important; if you read and understand it, the rest of the book is easy. For specific criticisms of Harvey that I didn't bother to go over, look up the critisticuffs review and read Mark Worrell's paper A Faint Rattling.

### ⭐ Incomplete with Print Errors
*by S***H on February 5, 2025*

This book is NOT the full volume 1 of capital, it contains only the first 14 chapters (and numerous print errors with entire pages illegible!). That's what you get with the cheapest edition available I guess, lol.

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- Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1
- Capital : A Critique of Political Economy (Penguin Classics) (Volume 2)
- Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 3 (Penguin Classics)

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