Week 1
Birth of capital
Key Questions
How did capitalism arise? How was this process racialized and gendered?
What is the labor theory of value? What are use-values and exchange-values? What are commodities?
What is money? What is the relationship between money, price, and value?
Required Materials:
Hadas Thier, A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics, “The Birth of Capital”
Hadas Thier, A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics, “The Labor Theory of Value"
Hadas Thier, A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics, “Money"
Supplementary Materials:
Reading Capital with Comrades, "Bloody Capital"
Reading Capital with Comrades, "Value"
Reading Capital with Comrades, "Money"