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Audiobook of "Wages, Price, and Profit" (also known as "Value, Price and Profit") by Karl Marx, published 1865. Read it online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/value-price-profit.pdf Article on it: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-07-21/our-reference-points-wages-price-and-profit?language_content_entity=en Chapters and rough timestamps: 00:00 Preliminary 01:29 I. Production and Wages 06:56 II. Production, Wages, Profits 29:16 III. Wages and Currency 39:55 IV. Supply and Demand 44:44 V. Wages and Prices 50:50 VI. Value and Labour 01:11:28 VII. Labour Power 01:17:54 VIII. Production of Surplus Value 01:23:28 IX. Value of Labour 01:27:05 X. Profit is Made by Selling a Commodity at Its Value 01:29:50 XI. The Different Parts into which Surplus Value is Decomposed 01:37:30 XII. General Relation of Profits, Wages, and Prices 01:42:33 XIII. Main Cases of Attempts at Raising Wages or Resisting their Fall 01:57:55 XIV. The Struggle Between Capital and Labour and its Results #8 of Marxist points of reference reading list: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-01-28/marxist-points-reference-reading-list Playlist of recordings from that list at https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/marxist-points-of-reference-a Subscribe to the podcast "Solidarity & more" by "Workers' Liberty" wherever you listen to podcasts. More info: https://workersliberty.org/audio Audiobook recording with thanks to: “Radical Reads”. Music public domain. Photo of Marx in London, 1861.