¡°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.
Preface vii
Introduction 1
Capital, Part I
l Commodities and Exchange 15
2 Money 55
Capital Part II
3 From Capital to Labor Power 85
Capital, Part III
4 The Labor Process and the Production of Surplus Value 109
5 The Working Day 135
Capital, Part IV
6 Relative Surplus-Value 163
7 What Technology Reveals 189
8 Machinery and Large-Scale Industry 213
Capital, Part V-VIII
9 From Absolute and Relative Surplus Value to The Accumulation of Capital 237
10 Capitalist Accumulation 263
11 The Secret of Primitive Accumulation 289
Reflections and Prognoses 315
Index 345