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Lecture 1 - Capital as Value in Motion

Marx and Capital: The Concept, The Book, The History (audio)

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The Politics of Realisation Is Fundamental for Anti-Capitalist Struggles

The politics of realisation is foundational for looking at the nature of social struggles going on in cities. Struggles are over housing, health care, against price gouging and telephone companies. The reason Marxists don't like it is because at the point of realisation the worker no longer is a worker. And that therefore an anti-capitalist struggle has to locate its struggles not only at the points of production and valorisation but also at thepoint of realisation.

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