Marx's Key Insight: Capitalism's Surplus
About this episode
This episode explores Marx's concept of surplus and its implications for understanding capitalism's flaws and inequalities.
The central concept of Marx's contribution to a critical understanding of the capitalist economic system - the entry point into his distinctive analysis - is "the surplus." Today's show is devoted to making clear (1) what the surplus is, (2) how and why the surplus is central to understanding capitalism's key features, and (3) how the surplus explains such flaws in capitalism, such as the endless class struggles it provokes and the extreme inequalities of wealth and income it generates.
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