Kapitalism 101
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manufacturing consent 1 of 2
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commodities remix part 1 of 2
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What the hell is money? 1 of 2
What the hell is money? 2 of 2
What is capitalism? 1 of 2
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We are entering a period of profound economic, political and cultural crisis. In such periods it is essential for society to have the right theoretical tools for understanding our condition and how to change it. To this end, I began making these videos in the spring of 08 in order to try to explain some rather complicated theoretical ideas which I believe to be of utmost importance to our current condition.

In times of crisis the law of value asserts itself with violence. My videos deal with the nature of value in a capitalist society, how this value is expressed, and what contradictions grow from it.

The full text of all videos is posted at:

http://kapitalism101.wordpr...

I highly recommend David Harvey's Kapital class:

http://davidharvey.org/read...
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I hope to make these videos less academic and more entertaining as I go along. The goal is to eventually get better at explaining complicated Marxist ideas in common, everyday language.
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Channel Comments (298)
IPlayWithFire135 (8 hours ago)
Clear presentation, very informative. I point everyone your way.

Keep it up!!
dearage (3 days ago)
Good stuff!! Informative.

Peace and Hip-Hop.
barrymarshall (3 days ago)
@JP2times2007:

to say that the value of commodities is determined by "socially necessary abstract labour time" is actually a tautology. Labour has a dual character: the concrete and abstract labour performed by a worker are dual aspects of the same thing. And because socially necessary labour can only be understood abstractly, we therefore do not need to say SNALT. SNLT is just fine.
JP2times2007 (4 days ago)
Do you know Diane Elson's Value theory of Labor analysis? Its dense but many seem satisfied with it. It's hard to summarize it but she really goes after what Marx means by 'determination' (i.e. SNLT 'determining' values) and tries quite well to define it using Marx's method.
timberwulfzero (5 days ago)
Excellent work; your videos clarified many concepts for me. I recommend them to people who wish to learn more about Capitalism and Marxism regularily.
UVURSU (5 days ago)
Enjoy the videos, great work. Just put one of ours up.
JP2times2007 (2 weeks ago)
Hey, bro. Good task. For the LTV and specifically Socially Necessary Labour Time-would it not be better to conceive it as Socially Necessary ABSTRACT Labor Time? SNALT instead of SNLT? It seems more clear to me.
metaRising (2 weeks ago)
great videos. thanks!
NUMBLIFEUSA (3 weeks ago)
your videos are very good and informative i like what you are doing i hope to see more of this
littlekro (3 weeks ago)
thnx for uploads
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