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Understanding Capital

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An Occasionally Illustrated Read-Along Podcast for Capital Volume 1 understandingcapital.github.io

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Understanding Capital @ucapital.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Episode 4 A! The Fetish Character of the Commodity: Social relations between people? Quantitative relations between things? What's going on with society in capitalism?!

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Episode 4 A - Chapter 1.4: The Fetish Character of the Commodity [p. 47-59]

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Understanding Capital @ucapital.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Episode 4 A! The Fetish Character of the Commodity: Social relations between people? Quantitative relations between things? What's going on with society in capitalism?!

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Episode 4 A - Chapter 1.4: The Fetish Character of the Commodity [p. 47-59]

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Understanding Capital @ucapital.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Episode 3A is out! We follow Marx in exploring the strange nature of value, and human labor in the abstract This week we've got a number of illustrations to help getting the core concepts of value (and its form of appearance, exchange value) and abstract labor right!

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Episode 3 A - Chapter 1.3 (until the Fetish Character) [p. 24-46]

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Understanding Capital @ucapital.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Episode 2B - where I talk to @m.sappir.net about chapters 1.1 and 1.2 of Capital!

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Episode 2 B - With Michael Sappir [p. 13-24]

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Understanding Capital @ucapital.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Got some more cutesy illustrations in the works! This time for chapter 5, the labor process & the valorization process!

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Understanding Capital @ucapital.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Got some more cutesy illustrations in the works! This time for chapter 5, the labor process & the valorization process!

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Understanding Capital @ucapital.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Happy pubversary to Volume 1 of Capital! If you find it daunting to start reading - Understanding Capital is here to help! An occasionally illustrated read-along podcast! understandingcapital.github.io/posts/E01A/

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Episode 1 A - Intro & Chapter 1 (first two pages only!) [p. 5-14]

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Having a great time in Chicago at the @socialismconference.org ! Thought I'd take this opportunity to let you all know that I've been working on a read-along podcast for Marx's Capital Volume 1! It even comes with cute illustrations in the show notes!

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Episode 1 A - Intro & Chapter 1 (first two pages only!) [p. 5-14]

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Understanding Capital @ucapital.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In Episode 2A, we're following Marx in looking at the two sides of the commodity: What it's good for, and what it can be exchanged for -- and what that tells us about the double nature of human labor under capitalism! Pages 13-24 (Ch 1.1 & 1.2) of the new Reitter translation

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Episode 2 A - Chapters 1.1 & 1.2 [p. 13-24]

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Understanding Capital @ucapital.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"The wealth of societies dominated by the capitalist mode of production appears in the form of an “enormous accumulation of commodities.” The individual commodity appears as the elementary form of that wealth. Hence our investigation begins by analyzing the commodity." (Capital, Volume 1, Ch. 1)

An Illustration of the dual character of the commodity (use value/value) and the labor that produces it (concrete labor/abstract labor)

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Michael Sappir @m.sappir.net · 12/09/2026

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Understanding Capital @ucapital.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Episode 1 B of Understanding Capital is out! Listen to me and @m.sappir.net from Chicago DSA chat about use value, abstractions, the commodity form, and what it means to engage with Marx's critical project today!

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Episode 1 B - With Michael Sappir [5-14]

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Understanding Capital @ucapital.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Makes you wonder what kind of economic system might make it *weird* to think of objects as systematically related to the people who produced them

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