Capital: Deep Review

Original academic guide to Capital, Volume I by Karl Marx.

• Academic Classics
• 40 min
• Ages 15–99
• 10 chapters

About this audiobook

Marx's massive critique of capitalist production, labor, value, surplus value, exploitation, accumulation, technology, class power, and economic crisis.

Why it's worth a listen

Make Capital usable for first-time adult learners: explain the conceptual machinery without turning Marx into either a slogan or a caricature.

Based on the book by Karl Marx, published by Public domain classic

Chapters

1. The Problem This Book Is Trying To Solve
2. The Historical and Intellectual Context of 1867
3. The Commodity and the Secret of Value
4. The Transformation of Money into Capital and the Mystery of Surplus Value
5. The Working Day and the Mechanics of Exploitation
6. Machinery, Technology, and the Domination of Living Labor
7. Accumulation, Crisis, and the Reserve Army of Labor
8. The Brilliance of Marx’s Diagnostic Vision
9. The Dangerous, Dated, and Disputed Dimensions
10. How to Read Capital Today and Who Should Read It