Karl Marx' 'Capital' 3.1.1 - "Oh, Hi, Marx"

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We begin our dive into Karl Marx's masterwork Capital I. In this episode we analyze his concepts of labor, commodities, fetishism, circulation, and hoarding as we work toward his central concept of Capital itself. Alongside our past work on dialectics, we may now elaborate and demonstrate what Marx means by dialectical materialism and how it is a unique contribution to the history of philosophical, political, and historical analysis. Unlike our previous analyses, Marx engages with a world of history and events that does not treat the mind as form in itself, but rather an element of human existence embedded in a world of economy. We apologize for some sound issues and will post the second episode soon.