Continuing with the Das Kapital reading series! Second half of the episode available for 2$ a month at https://www.patreon.com/livagar

Reading guides/secondary literature I've used:

Harvey's "Companion to Marx's Capital"

Stephen Shapiro's "How to Read Marx's Capital"

Heinrich "An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Capital

Fredric Jameson's "Representing Capital: A Reading of Volume One"

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Continuing with the Das Kapital reading series! Second half of the episode available for 2$ a month at https://www.patreon.com/posts/50860734

Timestamps for the episode:

00:00 – 02:46 Intro

02:46 – 06:06 The conditions for commodity exchange

06:06 – 11:02 The peculiarity of commodity exchange

11:02 – 14:03 Barter

14:03 – 15:51 Money

15:51 – 16:58 Outro

Reading guides/secondary literature I've used:

Harvey's "Companion to Marx's Capital"

Stephen Shapiro's "How to Read Marx's Capital"

Heinrich (my favourite of them) "An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Capital

Fredric Jameson's "Representing Capital: A Reading of Volume One"

http://la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver/357k/357ksg.html

All of my links at livagar.com

This episode is an overview of the first chapter of Karl Marx's Capital Volume 1. This is mean both as something to listen to before reading it yourself, or for those who simply want a short summary of it in audio form. The premium goes more in depth in Commodity Fetishism as well as the four developments of the value form https://www.patreon.com/posts/50528956/ 

Timestamps for the video:

00:00 – Intro

2:30 – Use Value and Exchange Value

5:59 – Labour and Value

14:35 – Marx’s Law of Value and Supply and Demand

16:45 – The Division of Labour and the Commodity

20:03 – The Coat and the 20 Yards of Linen

20:50 – Commodity Fetishism

29:48 – The abolition of Labour

32:29 – Outro

Reading guides/secondary literature/sourced material:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEGYaxWHwSE

http://la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver/357k/357ksg01.html

Sweezy, The Theory of Capitalist Development

Stephen Shapiro, Marx's Capital

Arthur L Thomas, The Allocation Problem in Financial Accounting Theory

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This episode goes into the concept of class, specifically how both Karl Marx and Max Weber conceptualize it, and the differences/similarities between their conceptions. Next episode will be Marx vs Weber on the subject of swag. 

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This week goes into the QAnon baking process and its paranoiac features. Sorry for the delay in episodes, will be back to the regularly scheduled weekly releases.

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Satire, noun, the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

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In this episode I read out two short pieces of writing dealing with the future of the left, nihilism, and historical necessity. The first section is meant to be a nihilistic/hopeless articulation and the second is meant to provide a solution.

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This episode I will go over the concept of "disruption" from a Marxist perspective, and show how connected the blockchain technology is to the creation of online far right content like QAnon.

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This week I'm finishing up the second part of my series on the connection between cryptocurrencies and QAnon, considering their analogical structure and its root causes.

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This episode goes over the general details of crypto and how it may appear as if it is a radically decentralized and non-authoritarian form of currency (not contingent on states or central banks) it nevertheless is not.

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