Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production, Volume 1: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production, Volume 1, credited to Karl Marx, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Captial, Volume 1, by Karl Marx. Capital, Volume I is the first of three volumes in Karl Marx's monumental work, Das Kapital, and the only volume to be published during his lifetime, in 1867. Marx's aim in Capital, Volume I is to uncover and explain the laws specific to the capitalist mode of production and of the class struggles rooted in these capitalist social relations of production. Marx said himself that his aim was "to bring a science [i.e. political economy] by criticism to the point where it can be dialectically represented", and in this way to "reveal the law of motion of modern society". By showing how capitalist development was the precursor of a new, socialist mode of production, he aimed to provide a scientific foundation for the modern labour movement. In preparation for his book, he studied the economic literature available in his time for a period of twelve years, mainly in the British Museum in London. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production, Volume 1
• Author credits: Karl Marx
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 82
• Listed recording duration: 39:19:34

Opening tracks: first 24 of 82

1. Section 01 — 11:15
2. Section 02 — 11:51
3. Section 03 — 22:35
4. Section 04 — 19:52
5. Section 05 — 19:06
6. Section 06 — 45:14
7. Section 07 — 7:58
8. Section 08 — 17:08
9. Section 09 — 43:04
10. Section 10 — 38:45
11. Section 11 — 30:10
12. Section 12 — 33:35
13. Section 13 — 36:55
14. Section 14 — 20:28
15. Section 15 — 15:15
16. Section 16 — 22:55
17. Section 17 — 8:09
18. Section18 — 37:16
19. Section 19 — 33:16
20. Section 20 — 30:36
21. Section 21 — 33:20
22. Section 22 — 46:30
23. Section 23 — 35:48
24. Section 24 — 26:08

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