Format
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Reading Volumes 1, 2, and 3 in one year. This will repeat yearly until communism is achieved. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included, but comrades are welcome to set up other bookclubs.) This works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46 pages a week.
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I'll post the readings at the start of each week and @mention anybody interested. Discuss the week's reading in the comments.
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Use any translation/edition you like.
Resources
(These are not expected reading, these are here to help you if you so choose)
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Harvey's guide to reading it: https://www.davidharvey.org/media/Intro_A_Companion_to_Marxs_Capital.pdf
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A University of Warwick guide to reading it: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/postgraduate/masters/modules/worldlitworldsystems/hotr.marxs_capital.untilp72.pdf
Week 1, Jan 1-7, Volume 1, Chapter 1 'The Commodity'
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Pro tip, don't skip the footnotes
When the footnotes cease being footnotes and the body text becomes a header
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Will each week be in this post under a parent comment like this? Or is this whole post Week 1, next week will have a Week 2 post, etc?
Discuss under the parent comment.
That's the current plan. Is there a reason I haven't thought of not to do it this way?
PS: See below. I'll make threads for each chapter
I think it can work both ways. I haven't done a bookclub through a forum like this before so idk what the norm would be. Weekly megathreads seem to usually have their own post, which to me makes sense firstly as a way to weekly advertise the club on the front page, secondly as a way to silo off the old threads if desired by locking them. As well, having everyone post under a parent comment seems prone to user error if people don't follow the rule instinctively.
That said, it's a small club and I don't think it is a big deal which direction is chosen.
I agree, I'd rather have a weekly thread then coming back to the same thread for a year.
Ok, we will do that.
uh-huh, good points
I'm just feeling this out, so I appreciate the input
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