Part Seven: The Process of Accumulation of Capital
In Part Seven, Chapters from 23 to 25, Marx explores the ways in which profits are used to recreate capitalist class relations on an ever expanding scale and the ways in which this expansion of capitalism creates periodic crises for capitalist accumulation. For Marx, these crises in accumulation are also always crises in the perpetuation of the class relations necessary for capitalist production and so are also opportunities for revolutionary change.
Read more about this topic: Capital, Volume I
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