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Format

  • 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.

  • I'll post the readings at the start of each week and @mention anybody interested. Discuss the week's reading in the comments.

  • 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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[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

I have notes for each chapter when I went through volume 1 a few years ago. Now I have an excuse to do the other two volumes.

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] KurtVonnegut@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Upside: +2 intelligence, +2 wisdom

Downside: -2 charisma (you will constantly have to urge to explain materialist theory to people complaining about the world's problems)

[–] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Are there any prerequisites for understanding? I’ve never taken things like calculus or Econ, for example :(

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 7 points 2 years ago

It's not as bad as you'd think. Marx is very repetitive with his concepts. Almost annoyingly so.

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[–] bubbalu@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Please add me to the at! I kept reading the first two chapters over and over every two months last year.

[–] squirrel@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

📖🐿️

[–] Pluto@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'll do the Soviet version of Theories of Surplus Value, not the Karl Kautsky version.

[–] Pluto@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

But of course, this is finally after I get through Das Kapital.

[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do you have a link to that?

[–] Pluto@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It should be on Ismail's Archive. Hold on.

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Pluto@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago
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