Who here has actually read all 3 volumes of Capital?

I've mostly read wikipedia articles tbh.

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Since most people have probably hidden the reading list and this thread is about books I will take this opportunity to request The Coming Insurrection.

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I'm currently in the process of reading vol 1, but I'll probably peter out 1/4 of the way in :>

I listened to David Harvey’s lectures regarding volume 1. Other than that, fuck no. Just read stuff like The German Ideology, Grundrisse, Wage Labour and Capital, etc. and you’ll be aight. No need to traverse a gorillion pages of Marx to get the idea

Thanks, that's really fucking helpful comrade.

Is it bad that I concern myself more with realpolitik more than pureideology?

Who the fuck has time for that? It's not like the fucking Bible, you don't need to read it to be a TRUE socialist

Yeah, that's about where I'm at as well. It's a bitch of read, tbh. Worth it though, I think.

I should probably start reading kapital 1 sometimes.

I will get it in Dutch, mijn kamaraden told me the translation is just better.

Grundrisse is longer than Capital vol. 1 so I don't see why you'd read the former instead of the latter.

Me, but that's basically all the theory I've read.

Meant certain chapters. It’s like 850 pages so yeah

Personally I have read through volume I and have read summaries of II and III. I've been telling myself I'll get around to reading the originals of II and III for almost two years now, but it seems to consistently find itself drifting deeper into my backlog of books.

Here you go famiglia

Also, more people on this board should read about Communization, it's interesting stuff, both the Anarchist and Marxist wings of the tendency.

I've read volume 1 and making my way through 2- determined to get to the end of 3 before i devour all of zizek & bookchin

I'm reading Otto Ruehle's abridged version from time to time, as it's not the Bible, contrary to what ancaps think we believe.

Forget to add, in German of course.

how the fuck can you feel qualified to make that statement if you've never read vol 2 and 3

I bet you fags don't even know what the fragment on machines is. THIS EXPLAINS A WHOLE FUCKING LOT ABOUT THIS BOARD.

I'm almost done with Vol I and have vol II ready to go.

Read Volume 1. I started out a DeLeonist reading it (had already read a fair amount of his essays), but by the end, Chomsky's videos had convinced me that anarchism isn't what most Marxists are told it is and had read the Conquest Of Bread because of it.

It's not even agreed upon by a lot of Marxists IIRC if Capital Vol 1 can act as a standalone or if you really need to read all 3. It's not as if all his work was finished. I've read a lot of articles on what's in them anyways and also watched the "Law Of Value" series (didn't learn a whole lot of new things from it, but bits and pieces here and there), so I'm probably not missing too much.

Can you please explain to me what this is? Now I'm starting to consider whether I should go back and read 2 and 3 if there's stuff relevant to automation. Do you mean that machines cannot produce surplus value?

I feel like Wolff's video courses and Brendan whatshisname's videos on it have told me what I need to know.

A true purist Marxist would say that nobody is a true marxist because volume 4 was never completed. But I don't know if one must read all of Capital to understand the inherent exploitative nature of capitalism, how each of it's component pieces is debilitating to workers and does not allow them freedom, and how revolution is necessary for a change in the method of production that dictates our lives.

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I’m not lmao this isn’t a purity contest

If you read summaries of the ideas in vol 2 and 3 and you’ve read a ton of the surrounding material it’s probably not worth it to read two more bibles worth of marxist text. But dude you do you, and honestly if you’ve read them I think the board would appreciate a detailed greentext summary of salient points because I’ve never seen one here

i have actually read all 3 all the way through, they were the first books on marxism i had read apart from the communist manifesto

The fragment on machines is part of grundrisse though.