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Karl Marx's "Capital" Vol. 1 (Part 2/4)

Theory & Philosophy

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Capitalism and the General Formula

The capitalist is someone who is disinterested in use value, and instead only interested in the limitless procurement. So if i have money, let's say ten dollars, through that process that i just outlined, becomes 11 dollars. I have earned one dollar of surplus value. And it is at this moment that we can earn this surplus that the capitalist is born. We're goin to get more into this history of capitalism in the fourth episode on this.

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