The Complexity of Money in Capitalism

Our third episode takes up chapters 2 and 3 on exchange and money, where the C-M-C circuit makes its first appearance. After setting up the juridical conditions of market exchange, we look at how money arises out of and transforms the exchange process. Next, we examine some of the contradictions inherent in the money-form, including those between C-M and M-C, and how these are intensified forms of the general contradictions between exchange-value and use-value. We discuss the origins and value of money, the difference between price and value (and what this has to do with sanctions and tariffs), credit, and money’s role as a 1) measure of value, 2) medium of circulation, and 3) means of payment, and the contradictions between these functions.

Articles mentioned in the episode:

• The myth of democracy and the rule of the banks (part one)
  https://liberationschool.org/rule-of-the-banks-pt-1/
• The myth of democracy and the rule of the banks (part two)
  https://liberationschool.org/rule-of-the-banks-pt-2/

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