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Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 1 with David Harvey – 2019 Edition

A close reading of the text of Karl Marx’s Capital Volume I in 12 video lectures by Professor David Harvey. Recorded at The People’s Forum in New York City in 2019. Links to the complete course:

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Reading Marx’s Capital Volume I with David Harvey – 2007 Edition

A close reading of the text of Karl Marx’s Capital Volume I in 13 video lectures by Professor David Harvey. Credits. Links to the complete course:

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These lectures were the inspiration for the book: A Companion to Marx’s Capital published by Verso in 2010.


Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 2 with David Harvey

A close reading of the text of Karl Marx’s Capital Volume 2 (plus parts of Volume 3) in 12 video lectures by Professor David Harvey (2012).

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Marxs_Capital-Vol-2These lectures were the inspiration for the book: A Companion to Marx’s Capital Volume 2 published by Verso in 2013.


Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason

A Series of Six Video Lectures in Political Economy by David Harvey (2016)

  1. CAPITAL AS VALUE IN MOTION
  2. VALUE AND ANTI-VALUE
  3. VALUE AND ITS MONETARY EXPRESSION
  4. THE SPACE AND TIME OF VALUE
  5. USE VALUES: THE PRODUCTION OF WANTS, NEEDS AND DESIRES
  6. BAD INFINITY AND THE MADNESS OF ECONOMIC REASON

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These lectures were the inspiration for the book: Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason published by Oxford University Press (US) and Profile Books (UK) in 2017.


The ABC of Contemporary Capital

Marx’s mission statement at the heart of the Grundrisse reads as follows: “The exact development of the concept of capital is necessary since it is the fundamental concept of modern economics, just as capital itself is the foundation of bourgeois society. The sharp formulation of the presuppositions of the (capital) relation must bring out all the contradictions of bourgeois production, as well as the boundary where it drives beyond itself.”

The aim of this course is to survey Marx’s political economic writings in 13 sessions to assess how far he succeeded in this mission and how far his findings illuminate contemporary conditions.

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