Capital Condensed

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'</span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Perfect for anyone Marx-curious in your life!</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Jamila Squire co-editor of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A Thousand Little Machines</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'I think it will make </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>a good educator for activists</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> who are not familiar with economics - and that is very difficult to achieve'</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Michael Roberts author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Long Depression</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Marx 200: a review of Marx's economics</em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'A </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>good pocket-book for carrying around</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. I sense a great hunger among younger people for exactly this sort of analytical framework.'</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Philip Hiscock Canada</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'Colin Chalmers has written a </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>clear easy to read</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> short version of the three (very long) volumes of Karl Marx's Capital. Step by step he takes the reader through Marx's categories and definitions and how they build into the complex web of modern capitalism. There's also a </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>very useful glossary</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> at the back. I only wish this book had been around 25 years ago when I was trying to wade through the original.'</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>James Clammer author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Insignificance</em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Capital Condensed</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>a short step-by-step guide to the three volumes of Capital</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> for the time poor activist curious student or general reader. If you want to understand Marx's investigation into how capital has grown to dominate our planet and must be superseded for humanity to survive this is the book for you.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>CONTENTS</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Introduction ��� 1 Commodities and money ��� 2 Capital and labour power ��� 3 Exploitation ��� 4 Productivity ��� 5 Subsumption ��� 6 Wages ��� 7 Accumulation ��� 8 Origins ��� 9 Circulation ��� 10 Turnover time ��� 11 Reproduction ��� 12 Profit ��� 13 Competition ��� 14 The falling rate of profit ��� 15 Commerce ��� 16 Interest and fictitious capital ��� 17 Rent ��� 18 Appearance and reality ��� Want to discuss </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Capital</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>? ��� Categories ��� References</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Colin Chalmers wrote for the anti-capitalist direct action newsletter </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>SchNEWS.</em></p>