Capital pt VII; Marx, 1867 — Ref #9.8

Eighth part of the audiobook of Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx. This section: Part VII: The Accumulation of Capital. Read online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ Contents/Timestamps (see below for tables): Part VII: The Accumulation of Capital 00:00 Intro to Part VII 03:18 Chapter 23: Simple Reproduction 27:37 Chapter 24: 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 Section 2: Erroneous Conception, by Political Economy, of Reproduction on a Progressively Increasing Scale Section 3: Separation of Surplus-Value into Capital and Revenue. The Abstinence Theory 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 Section 5: The So-Called Labour Fund 01:29:55 Chapter 25: The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation Section 1: The Increased Demand for labour power that Accompanies Accumulation, the Composition of Capital Remaining the same Section 2: Relative Diminution of the Variable Part of Capital Simultaneously with the Progress of Accumulation and of the Concentration that Accompanies it Section 3: Progressive Production of a Relative surplus population or Industrial Reserve Army Section 4: Different Forms of the Relative surplus population. The General Law of Capitalistic Accumulation Section 5: Illustrations of the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation The mentioned table of the distribution of certain incomes in 1864-5 https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch25.htm#S5 or summarised below: 1864 Total £95.8m | 308.4k people Of those £57.0m | 23.3k Of those £36.4m | 3.6k Of those £22.8m | 832 Of those £8.7m | 91 1865 Total £105.4m | 332.4k people Of those £64.6m | 24.3k Of those £42.5m | 4.0k Of those £27.6m | 973 Of those £11.1m | 107 The tables on Ireland at https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch25.htm#S5f the second summarised (table B/C): CHANGE IN AREA UNDER CROPS/GRASS IN IRELAND CEREAL CROPS 1861 ↓ 16k 1862 ↓ 73k 1863 ↓ 145k 1864 ↓ 122k 1865 ↓ 72k TOTAL ↓ 428k GREEN CROPS 1861 ↓ 37k 1862 ↓ 75k 1863 ↓ 19k 1864 ↓ 2.3k 1865 ↑ 25k TOTAL ↓ 108k GRASS & CLOVER 1861 ↓ 48k 1862 ↑ 6.6k 1863 ↑ 7.7k 1864 ↑ 47k 1865 ↑ 69k TOTAL ↑ 83k FLAX 1861 ↑ 19k 1862 ↑ 2.1k 1863 ↑ 64k 1864 ↑ 88k 1865 ↓ 50k TOTAL ↑ 123k TOTAL CULTIVATED LAND 1861 ↓ 81k 1862 ↓ 139k 1863 ↓ 92k 1864 ↑ 10k 1865 ↓ 28k TOTAL ↓ 330k ↓ decrease ↑ increase k = thousand acres Study notes at https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2021-09-03/marxs-capital-volume-1-12-week-course Otto Rühle's abridged version at https://workersliberty.org/capital-abridgement Eighth part of #9 of Marxist points of reference reading list: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-01-28/marxist-points-reference-reading-list Playlist of recordings from that list at https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/marxist-points-of-reference-a Subscribe to the podcast "Solidarity & more" by "Workers' Liberty" wherever you listen to podcasts. More info: https://workersliberty.org/audio Music and audiobook (Andrew S. Rightenburg) public domain