Karl Marx 'Capital' 3.2 - "No Use Value" -

Karl Marx 'Capital' 3.2 - "No Use Value"

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In this episode of Text of the Matter we continue through Capital Vol I, Book 2, going into detail on how Marx conceives Capital as a thing different from money, commodities, and their circulation. Through human labor, technology, materials, spaced, etc. are transformed into some sellable; just as human labor itself becomes the proletariats only means of earning their keep. Within this industrial context, is it possible to harness these technologies in a different way? As technology increasingly removes human intervention from production has the character of Capital changed? And how do we imagine revolutionary politics after these major shifts?

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