Wage Labour and Capital & Wages, Price and Profit

Karl Marx

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Two short lectures Marx gave to workers, and the easiest door into his economics. They explain in plain language what wages are, where profit comes from and why the interests of labor and capital collide, which makes them the ideal step before Capital.

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