Do you really need to read capital volume 2 or can you just skip directly from 1 to 3?

Do you really need to read capital volume 2 or can you just skip directly from 1 to 3?

Why is there a Potemkin on the cover?

feel free to read marx or bordiga rhizomatically

But you'll miss out on all the Voldemort subplots!

No need to bring Deleuze into this.

LOL That's my book.

To be honest, I wouldn't blame you if you skipped it, but I read it just to have bragging rights to actually say I read all volumes of Das Kapital and actually swallowed a couple important breadpills when I did.

yes, you need to read the whole thing

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what is this edition? i never heard of it

Wordsworth Classics of World Literature

have you read theorys of surplus value?

I guess I could ask in the Holla Forums reading list thread, but this one will suffice, and it's also less bogged down in other conversations. As a newb to theory with only basic bitch understanding, what is a good foundation to self educate on socialism? I'm not looking to reaffirm belief in one tendency or another. I'm thinking of (re)reading Wage Labour and Capital, then going on to Critique of the Gotha Program. After those, I'm not sure in what order I should read the rest of his works, though I suspect Das Kapital should be towards the end, as it's fucking dense.

I figure I'll just try and get through Marx to have a strong understanding of the theory that happens to (for better or worse) hold every other bit of socialist in it's orbit.

Is it adviseable to read a version with modern annotations, and is there anything I should read that would just make the rest of his work more comprehensible?

If you're strapped for time Ruhle's abridged is probably the best, but you still want to plan on reading all of capital sometime in the future.

It's not as dense as it sounds, the real problem is the first chapter, the later ones are much more readable. I would suggest reading "A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy" before going into the Capital, as it develops themes that would be later expanded into the Capital itself so you can get a gist to what to expect. And do re-read Wage Labour and Capital, it's a good short read and helps on getting what Marx means when he talks about certain things.

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Thanks. I'm not sure what good being a theory head will do me or others, but as I'm more of the artistic sort I hope to do a bit of modern propaganda one day.

Me too. The abridged is a good prep for Vol 1 so when you go in you aren't confused, but feel free to read other stuff between now and then, you could probably plow through the abridged in an hour or two.

TY, also for some reason I'm not seeing (you) next to anonymous on my post here. Weird.

Yeah the sites been fucked lately. Sometimes it takes minutes for a text only post.

That's exactly what happened with that post. Nice trips, btw.