Karl Marx

Capital
Volume One


Written: 1867
Source: first English edition of 1887
Translated: from the third German edition by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling, edited by Frederick Engels
Online Text: Marx/Engels Internet Archive
AudioBook Publisher: LibriVox

Capital Volume One

       

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01

Editor's Preface - To the First English Translation

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11:14

02

Author's Preface - I. To the First Edition

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11:51

03

Author's Preface - II. To the Second Edition

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22:34

04

Part I: Commodities and Money - Chapter I: Commodities. - Section 1: The two Factors of a Commodity; Use Value and Value (the Substance of value and the magnitude of value)

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19:52

05

Part I: Commodities and Money - Chapter I: Commodities. - Section 2: The Twofold Character of the Labour embodied in Commodities

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19:06

06

Part I: Commodities and Money - Chapter I: Commodities. - Section 3: The Form of Value, or Exchange Value - Introduction and A: Elementary or Accidental Form of Value

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45:14

07

Part I: Commodities and Money - Chapter I: Commodities. - Section 3: The Form of Value, or Exchange Value - B: Total or Expanded Form of Value

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7:57

08

Part I: Commodities and Money - Chapter I: Commodities. - Section 3: The Form of Value, or Exchange Value - C: The General Form of Value and D: The Money Form

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17:08

09

Part I: Commodities and Money - Chapter I: Commodities. - Section 4: The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret thereof

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43:04

10

Part I: Commodities and Money - Chapter II: Exchange

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38:45

11

Part I: Commodities and Money - Chapter III: Money, or the Circulation of Commodities - Section 1: The Measure of Values

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30:09

12

Part I: Commodities and Money - Chapter III: Money, or the Circulation of Commodities - Section 2: The Medium of Circulation - A: The Metamorphosis of Commodities

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33:35

13

Part I: Commodities and Money - Chapter III: Money, or the Circulation of Commodities - Section 2: The Medium of Circulation - B: The Currency of Money

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36:55

14

Part I: Commodities and Money - Chapter III: Money, or the Circulation of Commodities - Section 2: The Medium of Circulation - C: Coin and symbols of value

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20:28

15

Part I: Commodities and Money - Chapter III: Money, or the Circulation of Commodities - Section 3: Money - Introduction and A: Hoarding

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15:15

16

Part I: Commodities and Money - Chapter III: Money, or the Circulation of Commodities - Section 3: Money - B: Means of Payment

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22:55

17

Part I: Commodities and Money - Chapter III: Money, or the Circulation of Commodities - Section 3: Money - C: Universal Money

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8:08

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Part II: The Transformation of Money into Capital - Chapter IV: The General Formula for Capital

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37:15

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Part II: The Transformation of Money into Capital - Chapter V: Contradictions in the General Formula of Capital

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33:16

20

Part II: The Transformation of Money into Capital - Chapter VI: The Buying and Selling of Labour-Power

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30:36

21

Part III: The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value - Chapter VII: The Labour-Process and the Process of Producing Surplus-Value - Section 1: The Labour-Process or the Production of use-values

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33:19

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Part III: The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value - Chapter VII: The Labour-Process and the Process of Producing Surplus-Value - Section 2: The Production of Surplus-Value

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46:30

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Part III: The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value - Chapter VIII: Constant Capital and Variable Capital

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35:48

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Part III: The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value - Chapter IX: The Rate of Surplus-Value - Section 1: The Degree of Exploration of Labour-Power

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26:08

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Part III: The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value - Chapter IX: The Rate of Surplus-Value - Section 2: The Representation of the Components of the Value of the Product by Corresponding Proportional Parts of the Product Itself

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9:35

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Part III: The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value - Chapter IX: The Rate of Surplus-Value - Section 3: Senior's "Last Hour"

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18:25

27

Part III: The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value - Chapter IX: The Rate of Surplus-Value - Section 4: Surplus-Produce

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2:56

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Part III: The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value - Chapter X: The Working-Day - Section 1: The Limits of the Working-Day

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13:50

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Part III: The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value - Chapter X: The Working-Day - Section 2: The Greed for Surplus-Labour. Manufacturer and Boyard

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26:56

30

Part III: The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value - Chapter X: The Working-Day - Section 3: Branches of English Industry Without Legal Limits to Exploitation

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41:19

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Part III: The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value - Chapter X: The Working-Day - Section 4: Day and Night Work. The Relay System.

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26:36

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Part III: The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value - Chapter X: The Working-Day - Section 5: The Struggle for a Normal Working-Day. Compulsory Laws for the Extension of the Working-Day from the Middle of the 14th to the End of the 17th Century

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44:49

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Part III: The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value - Chapter X: The Working-Day - Section 6: The Struggle for the Normal Working-Day. Compulsory Limitation by Law of the Working-Time. The English Factory Acts, 1833 to 1864

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1:01:35

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Part III: The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value - Chapter X: The Working-Day - Section 7: The Struggle for the Normal Working-Day. Re-action of the English Factory Acts on Other Countries

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17:37

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Part III: The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value - Chapter XI: Rate and Mass of Surplus Value

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31:00

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Part IV: Production of Relative Surplus Value - Chapter XII: The Concept of Relative Surplus-Value

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33:43

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Part IV: Production of Relative Surplus Value - Chapter XIII: Co-Operation

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41:08

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Part IV: Production of Relative Surplus Value - Chapter XIV: Division of Labour and Manufacture - Section 1: Two-Fold Origin of Manufacture

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12:44

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Part IV: Production of Relative Surplus Value - Chapter XIV: Division of Labour and Manufacture - Section 2: The Detail Labourer and his Implements

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12:51

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Part IV: Production of Relative Surplus Value - Chapter XIV: Division of Labour and Manufacture - Section 3: The Two Fundamental Forms of Manufacture: Heterogeneous Manufacture, Serial Manufacture

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34:33

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Part IV: Production of Relative Surplus Value - Chapter XIV: Division of Labour and Manufacture - Section 4: Division of Labour in Manufacture, and Division of Labour in Society

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33:10

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Part IV: Production of Relative Surplus Value - Chapter XIV: Division of Labour and Manufacture - Section 5: The Capitalistic Character of Manufacture

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33:03

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Part IV: Production of Relative Surplus Value - Chapter XV: Machinery and Modern Industry - Section 1: The Development of Machinery

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47:39

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Part IV: Production of Relative Surplus Value - Chapter XV: Machinery and Modern Industry - Section 2: The Value Transferred by Machinery to the Product

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27:03

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Part IV: Production of Relative Surplus Value - Chapter XV: Machinery and Modern Industry - Section 3: The Proximate Effects of Machinery on the Workman

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48:52
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Part IV: Production of Relative Surplus Value - Chapter XV: Machinery and Modern Industry - Section 4: The Factory

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30:33

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Part IV: Production of Relative Surplus Value - Chapter XV: Machinery and Modern Industry - Section 5: The Strife Between Workman and Machine

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31:33

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Part IV: Production of Relative Surplus Value - Chapter XV: Machinery and Modern Industry - Section 6: The Theory of Compensation as Regards the Workpeople Displaced by Machinery

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29:28

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Part IV: Production of Relative Surplus Value - Chapter XV: Machinery and Modern Industry - Section 7: Repulsion and Attraction Of Workpeople by the Factory System. Crises in the Cotton Trade

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36:28

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Part IV: Production of Relative Surplus Value - Chapter XV: Machinery and Modern Industry - Section 8: Revolution Effected in Manufacture, Handicrafts, and Domestic Industry by Modern Industry

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01:03:32

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Part IV: Production of Relative Surplus Value - Chapter XV: Machinery and Modern Industry - Section 9: The Factory Acts Sanitary and Educational Clauses of the Same Their General Extension in England

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01:00:46

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Part IV: Production of Relative Surplus Value - Chapter XV: Machinery and Modern Industry - Section 10: Modern Industry and Agriculture

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10:36

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Part V: The Production of Absolute and Relative Surplus Value - Chapter XVI: Absolute and Relative Surplus Value

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29:00

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Part V: The Production of Absolute and Relative Surplus Value - Chapter XVII: Changes Of Magnitude in the Price of Labour Power and in Surplus Value

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31:02

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Part V: The Production of Absolute and Relative Surplus Value - Chapter XVIII: Various Formulae for the Rate of Surplus Value

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11:47

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Part VI: Wages - Chapter XIX: The Transformation of the Value (and Respectively the Price) of Labour Power into Wages

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21:28

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Part VI: Wages - Chapter XX: Time Wages

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23:22

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Part VI: Wages - Chapter XXI: Piece Wages

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26:22

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Part VI: Wages - Chapter XXII: National Differences of Wages

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14:00

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Part VII: The Accumulation of Capital - Chapter XXIII: Simple Reproduction

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41:51

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Part VII: The Accumulation of Capital - Chapter XXIV: Conversion of Surplus Value into Capital - Section 1: Capitalist Production on a Progressively Increasing Scale. Transition of the Laws of Property that Characterise Production of Commodities into Laws of Capitalist Appropriation

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26:04

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Part VII: The Accumulation of Capital - Chapter XXIV: Conversion of Surplus Value into Capital - Section 2: Erroneous Conception, by Political Economy, of Reproduction on a Progressively Increasing Scale

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10:06

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Part VII: The Accumulation of Capital - Chapter XXIV: Conversion of Surplus Value into Capital - Section 3: Separation of Surplus Value into Capital and Revenue. The Abstinence Theory

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23:25

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Part VII: The Accumulation of Capital - Chapter XXIV: Conversion of Surplus Value into Capital - Section 4: Circumstances that, Independently of the Proportional Division Of Surplus Value into Capital and Revenue Determine the Amount of Accumulation. Degree of Exploitation of Labour Power. Productivity of Labour. Growing Difference in Amount Between Capital Employed and Capital Consumed. Magnitude of Capital Advanced

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31:49

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Part VII: The Accumulation of Capital - Chapter XXIV: Conversion of Surplus Value into Capital - Section 5: The So-called Labour Fund

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13:01

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Part VII: The Accumulation of Capital - Chapter XXV: The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation - Section 1: The Increased Demand for Labour Power that Accompanies Accumulation, the Composition of Capital Remaining the Same

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29:49

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Part VII: The Accumulation of Capital - Chapter XXV: The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation - Section 2: Relative Diminution of the Variable Part of Capital Simultaneously with the Progress of Accumulation and of the Concentration that Accompanies it

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20:35

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Part VII: The Accumulation of Capital - Chapter XXV: The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation - Section 3: Progressive Production of a Relative Surplus Population or Industrial Reserve Army

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34:22

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Part VII: The Accumulation of Capital - Chapter XXV: The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation - Section 4: Different Forms of the Relative Surplus Population. The General Law of Capitalistic Accumulation

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23:43

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Part VII: The Accumulation of Capital - Chapter XXV: The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation - Section 5: Illustrations of the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation - Parts A-C

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01:05:33

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Part VII: The Accumulation of Capital - Chapter XXV: The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation - Section 5: Illustrations of the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation - Part D

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16:26

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Part VII: The Accumulation of Capital - Chapter XXV: The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation - Section 5: Illustrations of the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation - Part E

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01:12:04

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Part VII: The Accumulation of Capital - Chapter XXV: The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation - Section 5: Illustrations of the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation - Part F

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36:14

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Part VIII: The So-Called Primitive Accumulation - Chapter XXVI: The Secret of Primitive Accumulation

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09:42

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Part VIII: The So-Called Primitive Accumulation - Chapter XXVII: Expropriation of the Agricultural Population from the Land

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52:53

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Part VIII: The So-Called Primitive Accumulation - Chapter XXVIII: Bloody Legislation Against the Expropriated, from the End of the 15th Century. Forcing down of Wages by Acts of Parliament

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25:47

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Part VIII: The So-Called Primitive Accumulation - Chapter XXIX: Genesis of the Capitalist Farmer

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10:59

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Part VIII: The So-Called Primitive Accumulation - Chapter XXX: Reaction of the Agricultural Revolution on Industry. Creation of the Home Market for Industrial Capital

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12:58

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Part VIII: The So-Called Primitive Accumulation - Chapter XXXI: Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist

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30:48

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Part VIII: The So-Called Primitive Accumulation - Chapter XXXII: Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation

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10:46

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Part VIII: The So-Called Primitive Accumulation - Chapter XXXIII: The Modern Theory of Colonisation

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31:43