By Valeria Bruschi, Antonella Muzzupappa, Sabine Nuss, Anne Stecklner, Ingo Stützle
The nice Recession, caused by means of the cave in of economic markets in 2008, struck with such ferocity that thousands of individuals started to query the rationality of our capitalist economy. And as students, newshounds, and activists attempted to understand what was once taking place, they have been compelled to appear deeply into the character of capitalism—inevitably best them to the paintings of Karl Marx. Now, Marx is having fun with a world rediscovery and resurrection, and his masterwork,Capital , has discovered its long ago into collage school rooms, exertions unions, the Occupy circulate, research teams, and into the fingers of upset younger people.
Reading Capital can be a frightening exercise and so much readers desire assistance while tackling this complicated work. PolyluxMarx provides such counsel. constructed through students and political activists linked to the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Foundation), one of many top political schooling associations in Germany, this booklet has been box confirmed with teams learning Marx’s masterpiece over numerous years. It involves a wide set of PowerPoint displays, mixed with targeted annotations and proposals for tactics to debate the fabric. every one web page illustrates a significant argument from Capital, presents valuable introductory texts, and offers notes on technique and educating tips.PolyluxMarx is an ingeniously devised illustrated workbook that might aid readers take hold of the most important arguments of Capital. it's going to turn out useful to the curious reader of every age, in addition to to scholars, lecturers, staff, activists, and learn groups.
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Important to note is that the reductions do not occur one after another, as the image suggests, but rather simultaneously. And the numbers in the circles are not individually measurable hours, or even hours fixed prior to exchange (this is why the word «hour» is only appended in the case of the concrete labour expenditure), but rather illustrate a relation of social vali dation that becomes manifest in exchange: 5 hours count as 4 hours. 47 Presentation Set: «The Dual Character of the Labour Embodied in Commodities» Slide 7 (of 7) Level of presentation: Simple commodity circulation Notes: To conclude this presentation, here is another quotation from Marx that frequently sparks a misunderstanding: Isn’t abstract labour simply a physical or mental effort in general, measurable in terms of expended energy?
See also: the presentation set on «the Fetishism of the Commodity». The «mysteriousness of the equivalent form» is the foundation of the money fetish. 54 Presentation Set: «The Value Form, or Exchange Value» Slide 7 (of 9) Level of presentation: Simple commodity circulation TIP 1: The sense in which Marx writes of the «defects» of the form of value is best made accessible at the end of the entire value-form analysis, and with regard to the question posed at the beginning (see slide 1). TIP 2: In Marx’s time, a «coat» was a suit.
Marx introduced this distinction and, in doing so, distinguished himself fundamentally from classical political economy. 42 Presentation Set: «The Dual Character of the Labour Embodied in Commodities» Slide 2 (of 7) Level of presentation: Simple commodity circulation Notes: Tip: Due to the difficulties involved in visualization, services are also missing here: Instead of tables, taxi rides could also be used as illustrative examples. The dual character of commodity producing labour: 1. e. to allocate the necessary labour and subsequently to organize the distribution of the use values produced.
