
Lecture 1 - Capital as Value in Motion
Marx and Capital: The Concept, The Book, The History (audio)
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Capitalism and the Capitalist Industrial
The question of realization then becomes absolutely, absolutely critical. Marx starts to talk in volume two about the whole circulation process and says, well, let's look at this whole circulation process from the standpoint of what happens at the money point. The direct producer on the other hand says, realization is a problem and also getting the money back is a problem. And of course, the merchant capitalist, as it holds the commodity, says everything is a problem around It's a part from my vet, you know, and I just want the producer to give me the stuff so I can sell it. So three different perspectives. In a real situation, a proper capitalist entrepreneur would actually be combining those three different
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