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This is a transcript of a lecture on the first chapter of Karl Marx's Capital, where the author explains the concept of value and its different forms of manifestation: use value, exchange value, simple form, total form, general form and money form. The author also discusses the phenomenon of commodity fetishism, which is the illusion that social relations between people are relations between things. The author uses examples, analogies and quotes from Marx to illustrate his points and invites the audience to continue reading Capital.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
- The text is a transcript of a video lecture on Karl Marx's Capital, Chapter 1, by Amilcar Paris Mandoki.
- The text explains the concept of value as the abstract human labor that is embodied in commodities and expressed in exchange value.
- The text analyzes the different forms of value: simple or singular, total or unfolded, general and money form.
- The text discusses the phenomenon of commodity fetishism, which is the appearance of social relations between producers as relations between things.
- The text uses examples from history, economics and philosophy to illustrate Marx's arguments and methods.