What does Capital say about reality?

The drama "Capital" is inspired by Marx's book "Capital", and the reality is derived from the Wall Street financial crisis in the United States. The play is fully produced by the Shanghai Dramatic Art Center. "Capital is an angel?

Capital is the devil? Capital can make us climb to the sky in one step, but it can also let us fall into the abyss. Everyone has a capital in their hearts, what is the appearance of capital in your heart?

150 years ago, when Marx immersed himself in writing Capital, he never imagined that such an esoteric theoretical work "Capital" could be arranged into a play. The drama "Capital" will give an all-round interpretation of "Capital" from the aspects of "the possession of primitive capital", "the distribution of surplus value", and "the accumulation and expansion of wealth leading to the intensification of social contradictions". The screenwriter of this drama is Yu Rongjun, the director is He Nian, a new talent born in the 80s, and the starring Xu Zheng, these three "pillar" level bigwigs, use the form of hilarious and humorous absurd drama to explain the greatest theoretical work of Marx's life in the new era.

The stage play "Capital-Theory" will interpret "Capital" in an all-round way from the aspects of "the possession of primitive capital", "the distribution of surplus value", and "the accumulation and expansion of wealth leading to the intensification of social contradictions", and use Marx's "Capital" to study and analyze the methods, positions and concepts of capital, and explore the trajectory of capital circulation in the world today. The play invited experts such as Zhang Jun, a professor at the School of Economics of Fudan University, as staff officers, hoping to make people think about why the financial crisis occurred and what kind of economic system is the most perfect. He Nian, who is good at comedy, will make some fun and fashion sense under the premise of "serious theme", and use a more absurd method to present "Capital" in the thinking of contemporary young people.

Using the viewpoint and method of historical materialism, we reduce social relations to the relations of production and the relations of production to the height of the productive forces, thus proving that the development of social forms is a natural historical process that does not depend on human will, better improving our conscious understanding, and laying a solid foundation for exploring the laws of movement of specific material production and the production of the society, and making sufficient ideological preparations.

Before Marxism, there was political economy, but that was bourgeois political economy. Bourgeois political economy regards the "national wealth" as the object of study, only stresses the relationship between things, and does not talk about the special social relations between people, and regards the capitalist relations of production as something that has existed since ancient times and exists forever.

Marx achieved a fundamental revolution in political economy and made epoch-making contributions to the development of political economy through the creation of "The Theory of Capital Holding Trousers".

Capital explicitly takes the capitalist relations of production as the object of study, and uses the materialist dialectic as the guide to use the scientific abstract method to conduct research, thus scientifically establishing the object and method of political economy for the first time.

On the basis of criticizing the axiology of bourgeois classical political economy, Capital creatively analyzes the duality of labor and establishes a scientific labor theory of value, thus laying a theoretical foundation for political economy.

2. Capital is a three-volume book that focuses on surplus value and provides a thorough critique of capitalism. The first volume examines the production process of capital and analyzes the problem of the production of surplus value. The second volume examines the circulation process of capital on the basis of the process of capital production and analyzes the realization of surplus value.

The third volume deals with the general process of capitalist production, examining the specific forms of capital and surplus value, respectively. The content of this volume achieves a high degree of unity in the production, circulation and distribution processes of capital, and analyzes the distribution of surplus value.