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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. However, we're a bit ahead of the curve right now, and can slow down to about 35 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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Week 38, Sept 16-22 – Chapters 20 and 21 of Volume III.

Chapter 20 is called 'Historical Facts about Merchant's Capital'

Chapter 21 is called 'Interest-Bearing Capital'


https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/index.htm


Discuss the week's reading in the comments.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

For those who are familiar with "Dawn of Everything," Graeber would take issue with the characterization of a linear development from merchant power to capitalist power, arguing instead for cycles where either credit or commodities are valued for exchange

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The big footnote in chapter 20 from Martin Luther about crooked merchants has some great “Hell on Earth” energy to it matt

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Time for more historical analysis of the development of Capitalism. very-smart