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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. • Introduction • A: Elementary or Accidental Form of Value 02:07:33 • B: Total or Expanded Form of Value 02:15:06 • C: The General Form of Value • D: The Money Form 02:31:48 Section 4: The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof 03:14:25 Chapter 2: Exchange Chapter 3: Money, Or the Circulation of Commodities 03:52:47 Section 1: The Measure of Values Section 2: The Medium of Circulation 04:22:17 • A: The Metamorphosis of Commodities 04:55:04 • B: The Currency of Money 05:31:10 • C: Coin and symbols of value 05:50:53 Section 3: Money • Introduction • A: Hoarding 06:05:35 • B: Means of Payment 06:27:49 • C: Universal Money Otto Rühle's abridged version at https://workersliberty.org/capital-abridgement First part of #9 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 Music and audiobook (librivox) public domain. Image Paris 1968 poster.