Introduction to Capital

21 Feb 2025 ~ 6 Jun 2025

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Course Introduction

Course number: 09010630 Credit: 2

The teaching content of this course is as follows:

Week	Content
1: Introduction	General introduction to the course
3-4: "Das Kapital" - Commodities and Money	Overview of "Das Kapital" Commodity theory: attributes and value of commodities Monetary theory: origin and functions of money
5: Conversion of Money into Capital	Difference between money and capital Circulation of capital and surplus value origin
6: Production of Absolute Surplus Value	Extension of working hours and absolute surplus value Labour process and valorisation process
7-8: Production of Relative Surplus Value	Reduction of necessary labour time and relative surplus value Technological progress and relative surplus value production Forms of relative surplus value (cooperation, manufacture, large-scale industry)
9: Production of Absolute and Relative Surplus Value	Relationship between absolute and relative surplus value Unified analysis of surplus value production methods
13: Wages	Essence of wages: phenomenal form of labour power value Forms of wages (time wage, piece wage) Wage differences and their causes
14: Process of Capital Accumulation	Simple reproduction and expanded reproduction of capital Conditions and sources of capital accumulation
15: General Law of Capitalist Accumulation	Concentration and centralisation of capital Formation of industrial reserve army Polarisation between wealth and poverty under capitalism
16: Primitive Accumulation	Origin of primitive accumulation of capital Enclosure movement and separation of labourers from means of production Historical process of capitalist primitive accumulation

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