
Lecture 1 - Capital as Value in Motion
Marx and Capital: The Concept, The Book, The History (audio)
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The Value in Motion
Marks talks about the capacity of money to concentrate a certain kind of form of social power which is appropriable by private persons. So value then is that social relation, but it's a social relation that's in motion. And what does it mean to say it's in motion? Now Marks actually has I think a very interesting way of setting this up. He uses an analogy like the hydrological cycle where HTO is moving around and taking different forms as it goes through metamorphosis.
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