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Explain the bookclub: We are reading Volumes 1, 2, and 3 in one year and discussing it in weekly threads. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included in this particular reading club, but comrades are encouraged to do other solo and collaborative reading.) This bookclub will repeat yearly. The three volumes in a year works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46⅔ pages a week.

I'll post the readings at the start of each week and @mention anybody interested. Let me know if you want to be added or removed.


Just joining us? You can use the archives below to help you reading up to where the group is. There is another reading group on a different schedule at https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou (federated at [email protected] ) which may fit your schedule better. The idea is for the bookclub to repeat annually, so there's always next year.

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Das Kapital reading group, Week 24, June 10-16. From Volume 2, we are reading Chapter 15: Effect of Turnover Time on Magnitude of Advanced Capital in its entirety, then just the 1st part (The Annual Rate of Surplus-Value) from Chapter 16 The Turnover of Variable Capital


https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1885-c2/index.htm


Discuss the week's reading in the comments.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

reporting back in to the theory trenches rat-salute

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Uuhhh I'm really looking forward to moving on to part 3 (of vol 2) right now...

I don't even know what I'm supposed to be taking away from this other than what Engels is writing in the ed. notes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I'm part of the way through chapter 15 and it just seems like a lot of cash flow models that are fairly obvious if you've ever worked for a bog-standard "small business"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

When I wade up to my neck through a dizzying array of tables wondering why the hell we're going on about releasing capital, only to emerge on the other end and have Engels explain that he thinks most of that was not necessary and that Marx was probably unhelpfully fixated on that. fidel-wut

Seriously though that was probably the least engaging part of the reading to me so far.

Anyone disagree with Engels? It's kinda interesting to see the editorial note in the text. If anyone thinks he misses the mark though I'd love to have it explained, because I also missed the mark if so.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Not done with this week's reading yet but yeah... so far I'm not getting much from it either