Drawings for Marx Capital Volume 1


"The commodity is not like the partner that is half fish and half horse that we don't know what to do with" "That's what  you think!"





Boot is exchanged for money which is used to get goblet. The money from the goblet it is used to get shoes. The value is moving and undergoing metamorphosis, money is the larval form of value.


Just what are the Occult Golden Eggs?

........ just what is the commodity that the Capitalist is able to buy that creates money from money?

Money->Commodity->Money+More Money


Constant Capital-machines buildings and materials  Variable-For Labour 



Mr F and Rusty Foreman explain the generation of surplus value from consuming labour power.


Disclaimer. Please note- the capitalist always strives for the maximum rate of exploitation possible but unfortunately rates of exploitation may rise and fall. The suggestion through the use of a figure of speech that half a day is spent generating surplus value for Mr Fiend is an example, if he could get more he would. Rates of exploitation rise and fall with circumstances.

Capital feeding. 'Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks. 

The time during which the labourer works, is the time during which the capitalist consumes the labour-power he has purchased of him.' chap ten working vol 1 capital. Post Fordist World? Who makes your lap top? 
Political Economy describes capital in general as “accumulated wealth” OH YES accumulated wealth……
this is converted surplus-value or revenue-

WHAT IS THIS? 

Surplus Value is built up from the hours and hours that people work when they are NOT PAID. 

Part of the day creates the wage of the worker and the rest of the day creates wealth for the the capitalist. 

The stolen accumulated capital is used "reinvested“ over and over again in the production of surplus-value,”

-That is value created by people in the time they work BEYOND the value of the wage they are given whether it is making cappuccinos or lap tops. 

The capitalist is “the owner of surplus-value.” This is value for which the worker is given no equivalent in return.

The property laws of commodity production change into the laws of capitalist appropriation.