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  1. Using surplus value, one of the key
    concepts of /Capital/, as the central organizing principle of Marx’s
    analysis of capitalism, we can think of the three volumes of /Capital
    /as dealing with, respectively,^16

    * the generation and accumulation of surplus value (Volume I);

    * the realization of surplus value (Volume II);

    * the distribution of surplus value (Volume III).

    [...]

    In this chapter, we begin the study of Marx’s political economy of
    capitalism by working through the details of the argument in Volume 1 of
    /Capital /(Marx, 1992). We know from the discussion in the previous
    chapter that Volume 1 of Capital (Marx, 1992) is devoted to a study of
    the process of production of capital. Using the key concept of surplus
    value, we can restate the object of investigation in Volume 1 as the
    /generation /and /accumulation /of surplus value. To understand capital,
    one needs to understand surplus value – because capital generates and is
    generated by surplus value. But, to understand surplus value, one needs
    to first understand value; and to understand value, one needs to
    understand the commodity. That is the reason why the analysis in Volume 1
    of /Capital /begins with the commodity, which Marx identifes as the
    ‘elementary form’ of wealth in capitalist societies. [DB-LC, 48]

    [Deepankar #Basu - The Logic of #Capital: An Introduction to #Marxist #Economic Theory](google.gr/books/edition/The_Lo)

    (people.umass.edu/dbasu/Papers/)

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    Lewis #Hine
    Steelworker standing on beam
    1931
    © George Eastman House