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Episode: Wage Labour and Capital by Karl Marx ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]
Description: Wage Labour and Capital by Karl Marx audiobook. Genre: philosophyWage Labour and Capital is Karl Marx’s compact, razor-sharp introduction to how capitalist economies organize work, value, and power. In this invigorating audiobook edition, Marx’s clear, urgent prose breaks down complex ideas—commodity, labour-power, the source of surplus value, and the structural relation between wages and capital—into arguments that still ring true today. Far from abstruse theory, the pamphlet reads like a guided tour of industrial society: it explains why wages never simply reflect “fair” pay, how the market conceals exploitation, and how the inte...