Marx's Capital, but Shorter

read wage labour & capital is the capital condensed down for the busy prole to read on lunchbreaks

Trash critisticuffs.org/texts/david-harvey/

To anyone who actually gives a fuck and really wants to know how the thing they claim to hate (capitalism) works in reality, I highly recommend just trying to power through the first ten or so pages.

If you really read it carefully and take breaks to write down notes and think about what you're reading, it's not even that hard.

From Marx's preface to the German edition of Capital Vol. 1:

That's from the man himself.

I stand and accuse anyone who will simply "lol tldr" Capital of being a LARP-er who isn't really willing to go through the mental exercise of actually identifying the entity and machinery of the monolithic structure communists seek to destroy in the first place. Capital is where we seek to watch the gears turn in action and watch how Capital is actually used to wield and shape the society it controls. How the fuck can you fight something you don't understand?

And secondly, Capital contains pretty much all the material you need to criticize the system itself. It tells you why workers are exploited, it tells you how they're exploited, and it tells you how capital itself continues to propagate itself. These are weapons we can use to rally the working classes. I myself am preparing (once I finish my second read through on this international flight home) to condense some of his better points for the video series I plan to make. I can't stress enough that even if people like me crunch down the material and make it bite size for entry level socialists… if you sit there and say "I'm a communist" or even "I hate communism", you cannot stand qualified of any of those two statements if you haven't read this Magnum fucking Opus from the only guy who really took a look at the shit.

So please, read Capital. I too took a while to read it after only reading my assigned sections for school. I dawdled because yeah, it looked challenging as fuck. I even saw some of the Harvey series before I properly read it myself. But don't let someone else think for you; don't let anyone sit here and give their own version of how they interpret Capital. Most of you fucks will sit here and laugh at the sheep of the world listening to the MSM every day and nodding their heads. Think for yourself and gain your own opinion on this amazing piece of political economic writing, I promise it will be worth it in the end.

I'm available if anyone has questions on what they're reading, but I stress that I can only give my understanding and that you should develop your own opinions to help the revolution.

Attachment related redpilled me on Marx and economics. It doesn't cover everything Kapital does, but what it does cover it covers nicely

Many people don't have the time or energy to do what you just described. Do you seriously think someone coming home exhausted from his 8 to 5 job instinctively reach for his copy of Das Kapital to diligently take notes?

Wow, I had no idea. Thank you.

"Marx's Capital" by Ben Fine and Aldredo Sall-Filho.

My physical copy is only around 140 pages or so. But I found this web version that appears to be longer.

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Bruh I also work a full time now that I'm done with college, and I still find time to play Red Orchestra and take my gf out to do shit as well as keep up with my reading.

I'm not saying it's easy. What I'm saying is that you can't sit here and cop out while still saying you're some kind of socialist. Any hobby, any kind of real commitment requires effort and if you aren't gonna put in effort to read a damn book how the fuck are you gonna be expected to put in effort once any kind of revolution is on?

Besides I'm not speaking to anyone here who really had a full time job because most of the people here are either teenagers or students in university. You guys have the damn time, most of you anyway. I don't get how anyone here can think of themselves as "woke" or any better than someone sitting in front of the boob tube watching Faux if you can't even stand to take some effort to put some knowledge in your head.

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Do you honestly believe that historically speaking most working class people who participated in Socialist/Communist/Marxist uprisings actually read through all of capital? You're being elitist. The problems with capitalism can be understood with common sense and laymen language. Not saying that reading complex theory isn't useful, but you're being too dismissive of us stupid people.

Lmao I forgot this existed.

Probably your best bet, you won't get a sufficient summary of all three volumes if the summary you're reading is shorter than the Grundrisse, especially the parts on Capital turnover and rent in Volume 2.

Link?

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Here.
4shared.com/rar/wYR868iUba/kapital.html

Unless you don't live in a country where information is not free and you can read it on mangafox.

I'll find a way. ;) Thanks famrade.

Noticed this in my library the other day. Wasn't sure if it was worth the time. I notice it's completely absent of material from Volume 2?

There's a Capital manga? Where?