World of LenidzkyReading: Capital I, ch. 7-9 In my previous readings of Capital, I have glossed over some of Marx’s more subjective reactions to the economic processes he is describing, i.e. the fact that he hates them. The core purpose of Volume I is to analyze the extraction of surplus value from workers by capitalists and what […]
Reading: Capital I, ch. 4-6; Capital II, ch. 1; Capital I, “Appendix: Results of the Immediate Process of Production”; Capital I, ch. 19-21; Grundrisse, pp. 239-272; Limits to Capital, pp. 20-24 This week’s reading brought to the front of my mind Marx’s dialectical method. Throughout the book, he uses a plethora of literary devices to […]
Reading: Capital I, ch. 2-3; Limits to Capital (Harvey), pp. 1-20; Critique of Political Economy, ch. 2 In chapter 3, in his extended discussion of the circulation of money and commodities, Marx explains the dialectical movement of this process as follows: “Commodities first enter into the process of exchange ungilded and unsweetened, retaining their original […]
I decided to start reading Karl Marx’s Capital: Volume I. I have read it before but I want to get a bit deeper into it and eventually move on to the other volumes. I am not sure where this is headed, but I’m curious if I can use this to gain a better understanding of […]
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