Wage-Labour and Capital; Marx, 1847/1891 — Reference points #4

About this episode

This episode features an audio reading of Karl Marx's 'Wage Labour and Capital', discussing key economic concepts.

Audio of "Wage Labour and Capital", by Karl Marx, first delivered as a speech in 1847, but edited and published in 1891. The 1891 version, reproduced here, is better. Read this online at: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/ or as a PDF https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/wage-labour-capital.pdf See the article on it here: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-05-26/internationalism-capital-social-relation And discussion points: https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2017-07-26/discussion-points-educationals-wage-labour-and-capital Chapter contents and approximate timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 22:17 Chapter 1 — Preliminary 26:27 Chapter 2 — What are wages? 36:25 Chapter 3 — By what is the price of a commodity determined? 47:27 Chapter 4 — By what are wages determined? 50:57 Chapter 5 — The nature and growth of capital 57:54 Chapter 6 — Relation of wage-labour to capital 1:09:00 Chapter 7 — The general law that determines the rise and fall of wages and profit 1:15:32 Chapter 8 — The interests of capital and wage-labour are diametrically opposed 1:24:27 Chapter 9 — Effect of capitalist competition on the capitalist class, middle class…

Topics covered

• Marxism
• Wage Labour
• Capital
• Economic Theory
• Historical Speech

Keywords

• Marx
• Wage Labour
• Capital
• Economic Theory
• 1891 Edition

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Workers' Liberty

Books & works: Wage Labour and Capital

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