STUDY QUESTIONS FOR THE RISE OF CAPITALISM


Capital, Chapter 26:


1. What is the “fundamental condition of capitalist production”, according to Marx?


2. According to Marx, how did the classical economists explain the emergence of wage-labor?


3. What is Marx’s explanation of the emergence of wage-labor?


GENERAL KNOWLEDGE:


1. How was a class of wage? laborers created in the United States?


2. How was a class of wage-laborers created in other countries of the world that you know about?