Inside Marx's Masterpiece: A 4-Hour Breakdown of Capital, Vol. 1
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SECTION 1: The Building Block

Lecture 1.1: Why Start Here?
Lecture 1.2: The Two Faces of the Commodity
Lecture 1.3: The "Secret" of Value: Abstract Labor
Lecture 1.4: How Value is Measured
Lecture 1.5: The Dual Character of Labor Itself
SECTION 2: The Money Form

Lecture 2.1: The Form of Value (Part 1)
Lecture 2.2: The Form of Value (Part 2)
Lecture 2.3: The Birth of Money
Lecture 2.4: The Exchange Process
Lecture 2.5: The Functions of Money
SECTION 3: The Great "Magic Trick"

Lecture 3.1: The Fetishism of Commodities (The "Mind-Blown" Lecture)
Lecture 3.2: The World Turned Upside-Down
Lecture 3.3: The New Circuit: The Capitalist Formula
Lecture 3.4: The Puzzle of Surplus-Value
Lecture 3.5: The "Magic" Commodity: Labor-Power
SECTION 4: The Hidden Abode

Lecture 4.1: Entering the "Hidden Abode of Production"
Lecture 4.2: Constant vs. Variable Capital
Lecture 4.3: The Formula for Exploitation
Lecture 4.4: The "Vampire" and the Working Day
Lecture 4.5: The Struggle for a "Normal Working Day"
SECTION 5: How Capitalism Gets "Smarter"

Lecture 5.1: Relative Surplus-Value
Lecture 5.2: Cooperation
Lecture 5.3: The Division of Labor (Part 1)
Lecture 5.4: The Division of Labor (Part 2)
Lecture 5.5: The Industrial Revolution
SECTION 6: The Factory as a Prison

Lecture 6.1: The Machine as a Weapon
Lecture 6.2: The "Real Subsumption" of Labor
Lecture 6.3: The Factory as Barracks
Lecture 6.4: The Intensification of Labor
Lecture 6.5: The Social Consequences
SECTION 7: The Price of a Person

Lecture 7.1: The Great Mystification: "A Fair Day's Wage"
Lecture 7.2: Time-Wages
Lecture 7.3: Piece-Wages
Lecture 7.4: National Differences in Wages
Lecture 7.5: The Secret of the Wage Form (Recap)
SECTION 8: The System Feeds Itself

Lecture 8.1: Simple Reproduction
Lecture 8.2: The Worker as an Appendage of Capital
Lecture 8.3: Expanded Reproduction (The "Snowball")
Lecture 8.4: The Myth of "Abstinence"
Lecture 8.5: The Composition of Capital
SECTION 9: The General Law

Lecture 9.1: The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation
Lecture 9.2: The "Reserve Army of Labor"
Lecture 9.3: The Function of Unemployment
Lecture 9.4: The Forms of the Reserve Army
Lecture 9.5: The "General Law": Polarization
SECTION 10: The "Original Sin"

Lecture 10.1: The Myth of "Primitive Accumulation"
Lecture 10.2: The "Original Sin": A Story Written in Blood
Lecture 10.3: Act 1: Creating the Proletariat (The Enclosures)
Lecture 10.4: Act 2: Creating the Capitalist (Colonialism, Slavery)
Lecture 10.5: The "Historical Tendency" and the End of Capital
SECTION 11: Wages Revisited (Bonus Section)

Lecture 11.1: The "Unpublished" 6th Chapter
Lecture 11.2: Productivity and the "Nominal" vs. "Real" Wage
Lecture 11.3: The "Trinity Formula" (A Preview of Book III)
Lecture 11.4: Marx's Use of Sources (A Method Lecture)
Lecture 11.5: The "German" vs. "English" Sections
SECTION 12: How to Use This Course

Lecture 12.1: Capital in the 21st Century: The Gig Economy
Lecture 12.2: Capital in the 21st Century: AI & Automation
Lecture 12.3: Common Misunderstandings (A Recap)
Lecture 12.4: Where to Go From Here: A Reading Guide
Lecture 12.5: Conclusion: A Tool, Not a Bible

SECTION 6: The Factory as a Prison

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