Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey

A close reading of the text of Karl Marx’s Capital Volume I in  13 video lectures by Professor David Harvey.

The page numbers Professor Harvey refers to are valid for both the Penguin Classics and Vintage Books editions of Capital.

Class 1 Files: Video MOV (308.9 MB) M4V (657.7 MB) | Audio MP3 (76.3 MB)  OGG (72.7 MB).

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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 – Class 2, Chapters 1-2
Chapter 1: The Commodity
Chapter 2: The Process of Exchange (1:28:17)

Class 2 Files: Video MOV (294 MB) M4V (624.8 MB) | Audio MP3 (60.6 MB) OGG (68.7 MB).

Reading Marx’s Capital – Class 3, Chapter 3

Money, or the Circulation of Commodities

Class 3 Files:  Video MOV (306.9 MB) M4V (646.4 MB) | Audio MP3 (75.2 MB) OGG (74.9 MB).

Reading Marx’s Capital – Class 4, Chapters 4-6
Chapter 4: The General Formula for Capital
Chapter 5: Contradictions in the General Formula (29:49)
Chapter 6: The Sale and Purchase of Labour-Power (47:43)

Class 4 Files: Video MOV (271.2 MB) M4V (573.1 MB) | Audio MP3 (66.6 MB) OGG (61.7 MB).

Reading Marx’s Capital – Class 5, Chapters 7-9
Chapter 7: The Labour Process and the Valorization Process
Chapter 8: Constant Capital and Variable Capital (1:03:31)
Chapter 9: The Rate of Surplus-Value (1:14:38)

Class 5 Files: Video MOV (267.1 MB) M4V (562.2 MB)  | Audio MP3 (66.1 MB) OGG (57.5 MB).

Reading Marx’s Capital – Class 6, Chapters 10-11
Chapter 10: The Working Day
Chapter 11: The Rate and Mass of Surplus-Value (1:42:48)

Class 6 Files: Video MOV (296.4 MB) M4V (629.8 MB) | Audio MP3 (73.3 MB) OGG (66.5 MB).

Reading Marx’s Capital – Class 7, Chapters 12-14
Chapter 12: The Concept of Relative Surplus-Value
Chapter 13: Co-operation
Chapter 14: The Division of Labour and Manufacture

Class 7 Files: Video MOV (283.6 MB) M4V (596.9 MB) | Audio MP3 (69.5 MB) OGG (62.2 MB).

Reading Marx’s Capital – Class 8, Chapter 15
Chapter 15: Machinery and Large-Scale Industry, Sections 1-3.

Class 8 Files: Video MOV (275.4 MB) M4V (577.9 MB) | Audio MP3 (67.5 MB) OGG (59.5 MB).

Reading Marx’s Capital – Class 9, Chapter 15 continued
Chapter 15: Machinery and Large-Scale Industry, Sections 4-10.

Class 9 Files: Video MOV (226.7 MB) M4V (481.4 MB) | Audio MP3 (56 MB) OGG (51.6 MB).

Reading Marx’s Capital – Class 10, Chapters 16-24
Chapter 16: Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value
Chapter 17: Changes of Magnitude in the Price of Labour-Power and in Surplus-Value
Chapter 18: Different Formulae for the Rate of Surplus-Value
Chapter 19: The Transformation of the Value (and Respectively the Price) of Labour-Power into Wages
Chapter 20: Time-Wages
Chapter 21: Piece-Wages
Chapter 22: National Differences of Wages
Chapter 23: Simple Reproduction
Chapter 24: The Transformation of Surplus-Value into Capital

Class 10 Files: Video MOV (289.1 MB) M4V (615.6 MB) | Audio MP3 (71.4 MB) OGG (65.2 MB).

Reading Marx’s Capital – Class 11, Chapter 25
Chapter 25: The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation

Class 11 Files: Video MOV (327.8 MB) M4V (696.7 MB) | Audio MP3 (81.1 MB) OGG (71.9 MB).

Reading Marx’s Capital – Class 12, Chapters 26-33
Chapter 26: The Secret of Primitive Accumulation
Chapter 27: The Expropriation of the Agricultural Population from the Land
Chapter 28: Bloody Legislation against the Expropriated since the End of the 15th Century. The Forcing Down of Wages by Act of Parliament
Chapter 29: The Genesis of the Capitalist Farmer
Chapter 30: Impact of the Agricultural Revolution on Industry. The creation of a Home Market for Industrial Capital
Chapter 31: The Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist
Chapter 32: The Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation
Chapter 33: The Modern Theory of Colonization

Class 12 Files: Video MOV (238.8 MB) M4V (502.1 MB)  | Audio MP3 (58.5 MB) OGG (52.8 MB).

Reading Marx’s Capital – Class 13, Conclusion

Class 13 Files: Video MOV (220.8 MB) M4V (467.1 MB)  | Audio MP3 (54.2 MB) OGG (49.5 MB).

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The Enigma of Capital
A lecture by Professor David Harvey
City University of New York Graduate Center
November 14, 2008
1 hour 2 minutes

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