Marx's Capital Vol. 1 For Dummies
An HTML version of the eight-fold zine I just put on Itch , summarizing Volume I of Marx's Capital for our generation's brainrotted minds. I also previously posted a longer summary (lol). 1. Commodities Capitalism is understood as a society where commodities are produced and exchanged on a vast scale to support that society. A commodity could be a physical good, or it could be a service performed for money. We typically view each commodity in terms of how it is used and how much one is generally worth. A commodity’s usage, however, does not tell us about how much that commodity is worth. Since a commodity’s ‘exchange-value’ is measured using money, and money helps us compare exchange-values of different commodities, we can surmise that money measures a quantity of an essence that commodities apparently share in various amounts. 2. Value & Labor There is obviously no physical essence that all commodities have in common. You cannot view a commodity’s value underneath ...