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Kako Čitati Kapital
Kako Čitati Kapital
Kako Čitati Kapital
He does not examine a particular country (e. g. English capitalism around 1860)
or a particular era (e. g. the beginnings of industrialization).
The object is the capitalist mode of production at its ideal average (Capital,
Vol. III, p. 970), however: Capitalism always exists only in a concrete historical manifestation. Marxs analysis exists at an abstract level.
However: There are different interpretations of Capital concerning questions such as:
How did capitalism during the 19th century function? How does capitalism fundamentally function?
All three volumes we are familiar with were unknown to Marx! The work was uncompleted by its author.
Not starting with individual motivations and calculations; Understanding critically how people act as capitalists or as workers.
A critique of capitalism follows from this analysis, not a scolding of capitalists.
Volume II
The process of the circulation of capital The process of capitalist production
Volume II
The process of the circulation of capital
LP MP
... P ... C
Volume III
Structure of Volume I
Chapters 13
Circulation
Chapters 46
The circulation of capital
Chapters 724
Chapters 25
Chapters 2633
MCM The immediate process of the production, reproduction, and accumulation of individual capital
Production