Hello everyone, and welcome to Inside Marx's Masterpiece: A 4-Hour Breakdown of Capital, Vol. 1. We're so glad you're here. This course is brought to you by the team at DOC - Deep Online Courses.com, a platform dedicated to diving deep into the world's most fascinating subjects. And Capital... well, it might just be the most fascinating, influential, and intimidating book of them all.

Let's be honest: Capital is a beast. It's notorious for being the most-started, and least-finished, revolutionary book on the planet. Most readers, even the most dedicated ones, hit a wall in the first few chapters, lost in a dense fog of abstract concepts like the "value-form" and "commodity." It’s a book that’s more cited than read, and more feared than understood.

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Together, we will crack the code of the "commodity," demystify the mind-bending concept of "fetishism," and follow Marx right into the "hidden abode" of production. We will uncover the real source of "surplus value"—the secret of profit—and trace that logic all the way to its grand, explosive conclusion: the general law of capitalist accumulation.

Our promise is this: in 4 hours, this intimidating monument of a book will be transformed into a powerful, practical toolkit. You will finally understand the logic of the critique that changed the world. You need zero prior knowledge of economics or philosophy to join us—just a curious mind. Let's get started.