Marx's Capital Illustrated - An Illustrated Introduction

This beginners guide to Capital illustrates the key concepts, humour, and immense vitality to be enjoyed in Marx's great work.

List of contents

Introduction – 1
1. Commodities – 30
2. Products for Use – 34
3. Alienation of Use Value – 37
4. Overproduction – 41
5. Exchange Value – 44
6. Abstract Labour – 47
7. Alienation of Useful Labor – 54
8. Fetishism – 57
9. Money – 64
10. The Accumulation of Capital – 69
11. Labor Power – 86
12. Expropriation – 89
13. A History Lesson – 92
14. The Making of the Working Class – 97
15. Surplus Value – 113
16. The Rate of Surplus Value – 129
17. Labour Power and Class Struggle – 147
18. Abolition of Wage Labour – 162

About the author

David Smith is the editor of a forthcoming English-language volume of Marx's Notes on Global Capitalism and Non-Western Culture for Yale University Press. His publications include articles in many scholarly journals, including Sociological Theory, Rethinking Marxism, The American Psychologist, and Current Perspectives in Social Theory.

Phil Evans is a longtime political cartoonist based in England. He has illustrated Marx's Kapital for Beginners and Understanding Economics, among many other books.

Summary

This beginners guide to Capital illustrates the key concepts, humour, and immense vitality to be enjoyed in Marx's great work.

Foreword

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Additional text

"Valuable...in some respects more so than all the interpretations and popularizations I have read." –– C.L.R. James

"[Marx's Capital Illustrated] is very, very good, a brilliant exposition and a really creative relationship between image and explanation." –– John Berger

Product details

• Authors: David Smith
• Assisted by: Phil Evans (Illustration), Evans Phil (Illustration)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.07.2014
• EAN: 9781642593211
• ISBN: 978-1-64259-321-1
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 203 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 418 g
• Illustrations: B&W illlustrations throughout
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / General, Economic theory & philosophy, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Graphic Novels: True Stories & Non-Fiction, Economic theory and philosophy