Sociology 318

Fall 2002

 

Readings from Karl Marx, Capital, Volume 1

 

 

Topic

Chapter and section number

Page numbers in Penguin edition

Page numbers in Progress edition

Commodity

1 – Section 1

125-131

43-48

Fetishism

1 – Section 4

163-177

76-87

General formula: C-M-C

4

246-257

145-153

Labour-power

6

270-280

164-172

Rate of surplus-value

9 – Section 1

320-327

204-212

Working day

10 – Section 1

340-344

222-225

Normal working day

10 – Section 7

411-416

281-286

Relative surplus value

12

429-438

296-304

Cooperation

13

439-454

305-317

Machinery and industry

15 – Sections 3 and 4

517-553

372-402

Simple reproduction

23

711-724

531-542

Capitalist accumulation

25 – Sections 1-4

762-802

574-606

Primitive accumulation

26

873-876

667-670

Agricultural population

27

877-895

671-685

Capitalist farmer

29

905-907

694-695

Historical tendency

32

927-930

713-715

Colonization

33

931-940

716-724

 

References:

 

Karl Marx, Capital, Volume 1, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1976

 

Karl Marx, Capital, Volume 1, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1959. 

 

The web edition does not have page numbers but the chapter and section numbers are the same as those noted above:

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/index.htm

 

 

Paul Gingrich

August 29, 2002

 

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