Trade Unionism and Social Justice - Lecture Three: Introduction to Political Economy
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Transcript of Trade Unionism and Social Justice - Lecture Three: Introduction to Political Economy
The purpose of capitalism is self-expansion – capital begets capital – and it
does so by monetizing social value and human labour. This is a circuit of
transformation.
Immanuel Wallerstein, Historical Capitalism (London: Verso, 2011), 15.