Our fourth episode covers chapters 4-6, where Marx offers the first definitions of capital, surplus-value, labor power, as well as the relationship between the legal superstructure and the economic base. Picking up on the introduction of money into the exchange process and the contradictions between use-value and exchange-value, we begin by distinguishing C-M-C from M-C-M’, before questioning where the increase in M (or surplus-value) comes from. The answer? Labor power! The end of the episode discusses the unique properties of labor power, how its value is determined, the conditions under which it’s exchanged, and how the buying and selling of labor power alone can’t explain surplus-value.

Contact us with questions or feedback at ReadingCapital@LiberationSchool.org

#4: MR. MONEYBAGS (Ch. 4-6)

Our fifth episode covers chapters 7-9, which move us deeper into (absolute) surplus-value and the exploitation of labor power. We begin by distinguishing labor in general from labor power as a commodity, before uncovering the roots of surplus value in the exploitation of the latter. Surplus value and exploitation arise from the contradiction between the value and use-value of labor power. To explain this, Marx introduces the distinction between necessary labor and surplus labor, as well as the two forms of capital he’s concerned with in this book: constant capital and variable capital.

Contact us with questions or feedback at ReadingCapital@LiberationSchool.org

#5: EXPLOITATION (Ch. 7-9)

Mike Robinson, Patrick Henningsen, Vanessa Beeley and Debi Evans with today’s UK Column News.

UK Column News Podcast 14th October 2022

I put something together in 20 minutes. I wish I still had as much time for my music as when I was younger.

Autumn Synth

Used samples:

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Author: klankbeeld
Link: freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/671650/

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Author: strangehorizon
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Idle Time

Made for Naviar Records' 477th Haiku Challenge. Details at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/02/22/naviarhaiku477-far-distance-beckons/

A remixed version of this track is available (with other stuff) at https://tuonela.bandcamp.com/album/incorrect-modalities   ---  free, or pay what you like!

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Always out of reach (naviarhaiku477)

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Seramind - Chinkapin Shii (naviarhaiku489) [Ambient, Chillout, New Age]

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/05/17/naviarhaiku489-dividing-the-autumn-sky/

naviarhaiku489 – Dividing the autumn sky

Dividing the autumn sky
Into two
A huge chinquapin tree

Takahama Kyoshi was a Japanese poet active during the Shōwa period of Japan. He was the editor of the haiku magazine Hototogisu (previously edited by Shiki), where he promoted a more traditional style of haiku, as opposed to other popular schools which did not follow the pattern of seventeen syllables at that time.

Kyoshi also highlighted the symbolic function of the kigo (the seasonal reference), even though the more modern trends were already tending towards seasonless haiku.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 24th May 2023

Haiku by Kyoshi Takahama https://www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/literatures-and-poems/haiku/takahama-kyoshis-haiku-poems

Picture by Will https://unsplash.com/photos/x1JObX8KM8w

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Chinkapin Shii (naviarhaiku489)

The United States is the largest historic contributor to climate change, yet Washington is condemning Beijing for supposedly not doing enough. In reality, China is leading the world in the transition to renewable energy technology.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=pJ3ItSYBaJs

US hypocritically attacks China on climate change, while Beijing leads world in renewable energy

John Mearsheimer, the eminent political scientist who has warned for years that NATO's Ukraine policy would lead to disaster, joins Aaron Maté to assess the state of the Ukraine proxy war and the dangers ahead.

Guest: John Mearsheimer. R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago.

Support Pushback: https://www.patreon.com/aaronmate

John Mearsheimer: Ukraine war is a long-term danger

A track consisting of around 75% silence interrupted by bursts of noise from an original field recording made by the shore, a little reverb added.

More on this 606th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Three to One (Compose a piece of music with three times as much silence as sound), at: https://disquiet.com/0606/ 1

Thanks this week to Jason Richardson and Klaus-Dieter Hilf.

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0606-three-to-one/

Broken Silence (disquiet0606)

An interactive, chapter-by-chapter class on Karl Marx's 'Capital' Volume 1 for all skill levels, taught in 12 episodes by socialist educators.

#5: EXPLOITATION (Ch. 7-9)

Reading Capital With Comrades

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