What's Up With Capitalism? A Marxist Perspective
Channel: Jimi Sol
Date: 2019-12-14

This is a simple educational video about Marxism. The explanation is (quite literally) a bit of a cartoon, so take it for what it's worth. Hopefully you will get something out of it. Whether or not Karl Marx is right, he started an important conversation that we are still having over a century later.

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The music in this video is by Kevin MacLeod, and can be found at https://incompetech.com/

Further reading:

The pamphlet this video was based on:
Karl Marx, "Wage Labour and Capital", https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/index.htm

On private property:
Karl Marx, "Private Property and Communism", https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/comm.htm
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, "What is Property?", https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/proudhon/property/

On different forms of value:
Karl Marx, "The Value Form", https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/appendix.htm
Ernest Mandel, "Value, Surplus Value, Profit, Prices of Production and Surplus Capital", https://www.marxists.org/archive/mandel/1973/xx/value.html

On labor exploitation:
Karl Marx, "Capital", Chapter 9: "The Rate of Surplus-Value", https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch09.htm
Karl Marx, "Capital", Chapter 10: "The Working Day", https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch10.htm

Marxist Revolutionary Theory:
Karl Marx, "The Manifesto of the Communist Party", https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/
Mao Tse-tung, "On Practice", https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_16.htm

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:18 Owning the Means of Production
1:16 Use-Value and Exchange-Value
3:03 Appropriation of Surplus Value
5:19 Crisis and Revolution
7:35 Closing Thoughts