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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.

Archives: Week 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6Week 7Week 8Week 9Week 10Week 11Week 12Week 13Week 14Week 15Week 16Week 17Week 18Week 19Week 20Week 21Week 22Week 23Week 24Week 25


Das Kapital reading group, Week 26, June 24-30. From Volume 2, we are reading Chapters 18 and 19


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] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

reporting back in on posting duty rat-salute

currently i'm about a week behind on my reading, but i should be able to catch up

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

Whoooo back on the posting bus!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I'm enjoying this section more, and it does make more of the circulation stuff make more sense: you kinda need to know what Marx thinks is happening with circulation in order for him to explain parts of his criticism of Adams and the physiocrats. Not sure I have anything super insightful to add beyond that so far.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The Marx’s critique of Adam Smith: He’s wrong because in the Mad Max Universe, he’d only include Spuds and Bullets as social products, but not Guzzoline?

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

He also thinks that the tribute exacted by the warlords is what generates value, rather than acknowledging the workers creating all the things that get divided up into the various forms of tribute.