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I recommend the abridged version of Karl Marx’s Capital edited by David McLellan, published by Oxford University Press.
Alongside your reading of Capital, you may want to take up one or more of the following supplements:
- Workers’ Liberty Capital study course notes;
- “An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital” by Michael Heinrich;
- My chapter notes (see below);
- “Karl Marx’s Capital, an abridgement by Otto Rühle” (published by Workers’ Liberty).
SESSION 1
Chapter 1: Commodities
Bassi Notes Capital Chapter One
Chapter 2: Exchange
Bassi Notes Capital Chapter Two
SESSION 2
Chapter 3: Money, or the Circulation of Commodities
Bassi Notes Capital Chapter Three
SESSION 3
Chapter 4: The General Formula for Capital
Bassi Notes Capital Chapter Four
Chapter 5: Contradictions in the General Formula of Capital
Bassi Notes Capital Chapter Five
Chapter 6: The Buying and Selling of Labour-Power
Bassi Notes Capital Chapter Six
SESSION 4
Chapter 7: The Labour-Process and the Process of Producing Surplus-Value
Bassi Notes Capital Chapter Seven
Chapter 8: Constant Capital and Variable Capital
Bassi Notes Capital Chapter Eight
Chapter 9: The Rate of Surplus-Value
Bassi Notes Capital Chapter Nine
SESSION 5
Chapter 10: The Working-Day
Bassi Notes Capital Chapter Ten
Chapter 11: Rate and Mass of Surplus-Value
Bassi Notes Capital Chapter Eleven
SESSION 6
Chapter 12: The Concept of Relative Surplus-Value
Bassi Notes Capital Chapter Twelve
Chapter 13: Co-operation
Bassi Notes Capital Chapter Thirteen
Chapter 14: Division of Labour and Manufacture
Bassi Notes Capital Chapter Fourteen
SESSION 7
Chapter 15: Machinery and Modern Industry
Bassi Notes Capital Chapter Fifteen
SESSION 8
Chapter 16: Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value
Bassi Notes Capital Chapter Sixteen
Chapter 17: Changes of Magnitude in the Price of Labour-Power and in Surplus-Value
Bassi Notes Capital Chapter Seventeen
Chapter 19: The Transformation of the Value (and Respectively the Price) of Labour-Power into Wages
Bassi Notes Capital Chapter Nineteen
SESSION 9
Part VII: The Accumulation of Capital
Chapter 23: Simple Reproduction
Bassi Notes Capital Chapter Twenty Three
Chapter 24: Conversion of Surplus-Value into Capital
Bassi Notes Capital Chapter Twenty Four
Chapter 25: The General Law of Capital Accumulation
Bassi Notes Capital Chapter Twenty Five
SESSION 10
Chapter 26: The Secret of Primitive Accumulation
Bassi Notes Capital Chapter Twenty Six
Chapter 27: Expropriation of the Agricultural Population from the Land
Bassi Notes Capital Chapter Twenty Seven
Chapter 28: Bloody Legislation against the Expropriated, from the End of the 15th Century. Forcing down of Wages by Acts of Parliament
Bassi Notes Capital Chapter Twenty Eight
Chapter 31: Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist
Bassi Notes Capital Chapter Thirty One
Chapter 32: Historical Tendency of Capitalistic Accumulation
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