Cap & Cult Seminar Wiki

I thought it could be useful to use this Wiki to list and define key concepts we encounter throughout the text. Using the Wiki format will allow everyone to update, expand, and add new concepts as we move along.

Capital:

Capitalism:

Commodity: 'an external object, a thing which through its qualities satisfies human needs of whatever kind.' (p. 125) 'In order to become a commodity, the product must be transferred to the other person, for whom it serves as a use-value, through the medium of exchange.' (p. 131)

Exchange-value:

Labour power:

Use-value:

Value:

For questions email j.kinkle@gold.ac.uk