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=== The Critique of Political Economy. ===

* Critique of Economy and Marxist Economy</br>
* Classic political economy vs vulgar economy.</br>
* Economic categories as historical realities.</br>
=== Marx´s theory of exploitation ===
* Commodity, use value, exchange value, labour force, exploitation, surplus value, profit.</br>
=== The dynamics of capitalist economy ===
* Absolute and relative surplus value.</br>
* Marxist theory of crisis.</br>
* Long waves of the capitalist economy</br>

=== Reading materials ===

* Friedrich Engels, [["Introduction" to "Wage Labout and Capital" (Extract)]], 1891

* Karl Marx, [[Capital Volume 1, "Chapter Six: The Buying and Selling of Labour-Power" (Extract)]], 1867

* [https://4edu.info/images/3/38/EN_Day_2_Mandel.pdf Excerpt from: Ernest Mandel, 'An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory']