ABSTRACT
Renowned Marxist scholar and critical media theorist Christian Fuchs provides a thorough, chapter-by-chapter introduction to Capital Volume 1 that assists readers in making sense of Karl Marx’s most important and groundbreaking work in the information age, exploring Marx’s key concepts through the lens of media and communication studies via contemporary phenomena like the Internet, digital labour, social media, the media industries, and digital class struggles. Through a range of international, current-day examples, Fuchs emphasises the continued importance of Marx and his work in a time when transnational media companies like Amazon, Google, and Facebook play an increasingly important role in global capitalism. Discussion questions and exercises at the end of each chapter help readers to further apply Marx’s work to a modern-day context.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |12 pages
Introduction
part I|52 pages
Commodities and Money
part II|24 pages
The Transformation of Money into Capital
part III|56 pages
The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value
part IV|90 pages
The Production of Relative Surplus-Value
part V|28 pages
The Production of Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value
part VI|20 pages
Wages
part VII|22 pages
The Process of Accumulation of Capital
part VIII|36 pages
So-Called Primitive Accumulation