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Capital: Volume 1
- A Critique of Political Economy
- Narrated by: Derek Le Page
- Length: 43 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Money & Finance, Economics
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Essential Reading (Listening) by ALL Human Beings
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Summary
It can be said of very few books that the world was changed as a result of its publication - but this is certainly the case of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (1818-1883). Volume 1 appeared (in German) in 1867, and the two subsequent volumes appeared at later dates after the author's death - completed from extensive notes left by Marx himself.
Marx, famously writing in the Reading Room of the British Museum, set out to draw on theories of labour, money and economics developed by many key figures in previous centuries and then present a vivid picture of the effect of (as he saw it) the vicious exploitation of labour and the power-play and greed of that class of unprincipled businessmen - the capitalists. He starts by considering commodity, value and exchange. In doing so he looks at the basic processes involved in labour productivity and how it turns into excessive surplus value at the expense of the labourer himself. But do not think that that this is a dry analysis of the nuts and bolts of economics. Soon Marx, from extensive research, begins to outline the horrifying effect of the industrial revolution (for all its benefits) on the working man, woman and child, the blighting of their lives and slow, oh so slow, march of correcting Acts of Parliaments through the 19th century. These two threads - exploitation economics and the personal plight of the worker - continue to be developed side by side and intertwine with conclusions to become a truly powerful and emotional polemic.
Sometimes it becomes clear that his observations are hugely relevant to our 24 hour life, our gig economy and our international economy, with a frightening percentage of world wealth being held in a few hands. This is not an easy book but, especially in the hands of Derek Le Page, who has incorporated all the relevant footnotes (and they are extensive), it is a compelling listen. Whatever the nightmare of 20th century communism, to ignore this book is misjudge it. Marx said, 'Philosophers have previously tried to explain the world; our task is to change it'. And he meant it.
Translation: Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling.
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- Kevin Waisome
- 13-05-19
Marx tells it how it is !!!
A thorough breakdown and critique of the capitalist system . Read perfectly clear and concise with all footnotes of the updated editions
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- Louie Mussett
- 24-02-20
Good moments, dreary in most places
It is a reminder to listeners that this is written in the olden English and is therefore strenuously long and repetitive, especially one of the chapters about value and linen. Listen to as much as you can bear and then move on to the next chapter.
All in all a very long listen, but full of quality quotes from Marx and his footnotes.
This book is not about communism, it’s about ‘class struggle’, and he explains in detail the perspective of both sides, of the proletariat and of the Bourgeoise.
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- Lee Bergin
- 15-08-19
Fascinating
long. but worth it for a detailed insight to the industry of the UK in the 1800s
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- Jay Blake
- 30-05-20
Perfect Narration
Perfect narration to a very dry and difficult text. It gets better towards the end and understanding it is worth it!
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- ChrisE
- 08-06-19
Excellent
I would never have got round to reading this, but it was a joy to listen to. Le Page brings Marx to life and makes a sometimes difficult text as easy to follow as possible.
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- isaac kneebone-hopkins
- 24-05-21
absolutely great way to read a stone cold classic
an absolute banger of a book. First 10 chapters are pretty heavy going but it does get easier (i promise).
Derek le Page is a great reader who really helps you grasp the meaning of the book even doing the sarcastic parts with the right level of sass.
Read this book then change the world
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- Anonymous User
- 16-03-21
Bad translations
The narrator struggles mightily with both German and French. Makes the footnotes excruciating to listen to
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- Jem
- 30-08-21
Not good as an audio book
Footnote after footnote after footnote breaking into the text, I'd had enough after only 1 hour.
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- Samuel Taylor-Wickenden
- 09-06-21
Unparalleled work
Marx got it right about capitalism. The most in-depth and ambitious critique of the current system that many of his detractors have failed refute. Their only recourse left is slander.
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- Mr. Steven A. Clark
- 22-03-21
Enthralling if viewed through the correct lens
Derek Le Page does a great job of keeping the listener's attention, through what could be described a dry subject. There are great pearls of wisdom throughout, though sometimes spelling out the obvious to anyone who has actually taken the time to think of such things. Some of the accounts of labour conditions are appalling and make even the hardest of heart wince.
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- r.b.
- 07-11-19
Everything I knew about Marx was wrong.
I love books that challenge me. This is one of them.
I grew up learning negative things about Marx. After reading this, I must say, this guy was way ahead of his time. His philosophy should be taught in schools.
Today, we have good labor laws are because of people like Marx. He rightly exposed the ugly side of the capitalism.
Please read and understand that human is to n fact above capital.
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- Brett Katz
- 22-01-20
Footnotes = bad to read
Stop reading footnotes plzzzz. This would be better if it was continuous and I didn’t have to constantly skip.
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- Earth Lover
- 01-04-18
Classic Economics Text - A Good Listen
Capital is one of the half-dozen key economic texts of the past 200 years - and perhaps the most readable. Volume One contains the key material. How great to settle into a good reading.
Marx takes the labor theory of value as developed by Adam Smith and others and shows its implications for workers, managers, and owners - a worthy goal, and critical reading for anyone interested in economics regardless of your outlook.
No, Marx can't "prove" that labor is the basis of all economic value. That's because you can't prove ANY theory of value - you always wind up assuming what you set out to prove. All you can do is show the implications of starting from a particular theory.
What Marx shows is, IF you accept that labor is the core of economic value, here is how capitalism structures economic relations. He shows the source of profit (from the exploitation of productive labor, he famously concludes), how banks, insurance companies,and other non-productive firms fit into the picture, the role of management - and most of all, how working people are getting ripped off by owners, stock-holders, etc.
Big surprise, eh?
Basically, the labor theory of value makes sense to those of us who work for a wage or a fixed, contracted salary with no "stock options". For the managing and owning classes and those who dream of joining them, there are obvious incentives NOT to accept this theory. Suit yourself.
Have Marx's economic ideas ever been applied by "communist" countries? For the most part, no - so-called socialist countries have mainly applied totalitarian capitalist methods, with mixed results. Russia, China and the rest have been state-capitalist, not popular-socialist, systems.
We're still waiting for the world's first workers' democracy. The first steps include grasping how capital functions and how it structures our world. This recording is a welcome contribution.
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- Gary
- 06-05-18
Exploitation never goes out of fashion
The conqueror will occupy your lands and then sell your resources back to you on credit and tell you all the time it’s a good deal for you. Marx said that multiple times in this book and that’s a metaphor he used to describe the fate of the working person (labor) when at the mercy of capital.
Exploitation and alienation are features not bugs in the absence of a government for the people. The plight of the working class in Europe for the most part was pitiful and hopeless during the time of this book and Marx does a yeoman job of documenting it. Just as burning cats might have been au currant in 1667 Paris and forcing children as young as 8 years old or forcing overtime upon workers or providing them below subsistence wages with dangerous work conditions was the norm in 1860 England, nobody sane accepts those norms today. The world has changed today but this book makes a case that we are only as good as the government that we have when they act in the interest for the people and not the oligarchs.
The oligarchs and the powerful will always alienate and exploit to squeeze the other who is not them up to the limit that they can get away with. The status quo is the default given as ought, the naturalistic fallacy which assumes ‘is’ means ‘ought’. The status quo and the given during Marx’s time was that 16 hour day was in the best interest of the working person, and the factories and workhouses said they were doing the working class a favor, and Marx was forced to refute that and a whole host of other givens as ought. Today, those kinds of norms seem anachronistic and superfluous, but that’s only because society has changed. (Ultimately, nothing ever really changes, even somebody I’ve barely ever heard of before today, Kayne West, recently said that ‘slavery for the slaves was a choice’ in America since it lasted for 400 years. The ignorant will always be ignorant because they don’t know they don’t know and aren’t interested in learning).
You ever notice how even the reality based journalism makes a statement such as ‘there is a shortage of fast food workers’ (the NYT did that on 5/4/2018 with reference to the 3.9% unemployment numbers that came out)? That statement really irritates me. What they really are saying is at the wages the fast food companies are willing to pay there aren’t enough workers who want to be exploited at those low wages. Marx will show even in his time period that kind of wrongheaded formulation was prevalent.
The masters of suspicion: Freud, Nietzsche and Marx all had their take on truth. Freud thought truth existed but we are in denial about it, Nietzsche thought the greatest truth was that there was no knowable truth, and Marx thought truth was discoverable through class. Marx will try to develop his foundations through class and its exploitation and alienation with theory of money, currency, labor and capital, and through his story telling.
And what a story Marx tells. He is incredibly gifted in weaving philosophy and religion into his narrative. I can say that most of what I read now days about Hegel has gone through a lens of Marx which is unfortunate because Hegel clearly could have another more relevant interpretation than what is commonly thought. Marx expects his readers to be cognizant of philosophy and will make statements such as ‘that would lead to the sophistry of Protagoras or the relativism of the Eleatics’.
There is a reason why the ‘Great Books of the Western World’ included this book in the series. Not only is Marx an incredibly good writer (while not necessarily being a great economist), he has something to say that is relevant for our time period and definitely should be read today. This Ukemi production is a treasure and I would highly recommend it. (And no I’m not affiliated with Ukemi in any way even though I keep reviewing and raving about their products. They just seem to have the books I’ve been reading because I just love the old classics that they have recently made available).
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- Brett
- 20-11-18
Long-winded but wise
This is much like a college lecture, boring and long, but imparting a lot of solid information and logic. The only evil thing Karl Marx has ever done is make people sit through 6+ hours of logic diagrams explaining how commodities derive value, lol. Ultimately, nothing he says is wrong, and his entire philosophy seems to be that if you push people to a breaking point, they revolt.
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- Mustafa Dafalla
- 10-10-20
Economics explained... Really!
This book builds up the readers understanding of economics in a way independent of the communist philosophy famously attributed with Marxs. It is a must listen, and, last chapters not withstanding, lays bare the principles and laws of economics very matter of factly.
Other listeners took issue with the narrator reading the footnotes... I, to the contrary, found them insightful.
Full disclosure I am a "fast listener" so I listened at 3X, but found it enthralling never the less. This book is for someone who really wants to get at the heart of things, however, and probably not for someone with a passing interest in the topic.
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- Krunce
- 25-11-19
Why are all the footnotes read????
I stopped listening to this once I realized all the footnotes would be read. No 19th century writer is economical with their footnotes. This was a ridiculous choice.
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- Dyan R.
- 22-06-20
brilliant!
great translation expertly read
an amazing experience from start to finish
highly recommended essential reading for every person
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- Yoshi Tryba
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Hammers it home
Most of this text is an extremely detailed documentation of industrialization in the UK and the horrors visited on the working class by factory owners. It's worth reading just to have hammered home the breadth and depth of the cruelty of people with wealth and no governments to hold them in check. -- The first couple chapters are economic theory, with some extraordinary ideas, and others to be taken with a grain of salt.
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- Olawale J. Ogundana
- 05-06-21
Very Informative Book
I read the book because I wanted to gain more insight into Karl Marx's views - beyond the catchphrase about his prediction of revolutions. I got that. The book also provided me with a window into the difficult living and working conditions of the poor in 19th century Europe. The book is very informative.
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