A Free Course on Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume 1 from Yale University

From Yale pro­fes­sor Paul North comes a chap­ter-by-chap­ter study of Karl Marx’s Cap­i­tal: Cri­tique of Polit­i­cal Econ­o­my, Vol­ume 1. Accord­ing to the descrip­tion that accom­pa­nies the course on YouTube, this “book from 1872 is still the best guide to the preda­to­ry eco­nom­ic and social sys­tem with­in which we live. The book solves five basic mys­ter­ies in our social world. The mys­ter­ies are: why social class­es strug­gle against one anoth­er, why human beings are in the thrall of things, how a quan­ti­ty of mon­ey turns into more mon­ey with­out seem­ing to add any­thing, why some peo­ple are forced to work and the more they work the less they make pro­por­tion­al to their effort, and final­ly, and why it is so hard to trans­form the sys­tem for the bet­ter.” You can watch the 19 lec­tures from the course in the playlist above.

Prof. North is the co-edi­tor of the new Eng­lish trans­la­tion and crit­i­cal edi­tion of Cap­i­tal Vol­ume 1, and it’s the text used in the course. If you’re inter­est­ed in delv­ing deep­er into Marx’s Cap­i­tal, see the David Har­vey cours­es list­ed in the Relat­eds below.

This course will be added to our list of 1,700 Free Online Cours­es from Top Uni­ver­si­ties

Relat­ed Con­tent

David Harvey’s Course on Marx’s Cap­i­tal: Vol­umes 1 & 2 Now Avail­able Free Online

5 Free Online Cours­es on Marx’s Cap­i­tal from Prof. David Har­vey

A Short Ani­mat­ed Intro­duc­tion to Karl Marx

What Karl Marx Meant by “Alien­ation”: Two Ani­mat­ed Videos Explain