Capital pt I; Marx, 1867 — Reference points #9.1

First part of the audiobook of "Capital: a critical analysis of capitalist production, Volume 1 (The Process of Production of Capital)" by Karl Marx, published in 1867. This section: editor's and authors prefaces plus Part I: Commodities and Money (Chapters 1-3). Read online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ (not necessarily the same translation, and not all prefaces etc. included).

Study notes at https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2021-09-03/marxs-capital-volume-1-12-week-course

Article on it (particularly chapters six and seven, released as a later audio upload) https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-08-18/capital-chapters-six-and-seven

Chapters and timestamps:

00:00 Editor's preface to the first English edition; Engels 1886

10:55 Preface to the first German edition; Marx 1867

22:22 Afterward to the second edition; Marx, 1873

Part 1: Commodities and Money

Chapter 1: Commodities

44:27 Section 1: The Two Factors of a Commodity: Use-Value and Value (The Substance of Value and the Magnitude of Value)

01:04:03 Section 2: The Two-fold Character of the Labour Embodied in Commodities

01:22:44 Section 3: The Form of Value or Exchange-Value.