What's the best resource to learn about criticisms of capitalism...

What's the best resource to learn about criticisms of capitalism? Is Capital a poor place to start for someone with very little philosophical or economics background?

If I should read into philosophy or economics first, what should I read in that case, too?

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Pick beans with mexicans for six months before you read anything. Anything else is a cultural conspiracy - with you as the weapon.

This is sensible and correct.

Practical experience.

Yes

a) start with the greeks
b) go to a used bookstore and find an introductory philosophy textbook

wikipedia will give you a meme-tier understanding of both subjects, but reading it can be useful anyway if you know nothing about either subject, and because it can introduce you to terms and concepts to research more thoroughly on your own later

Here's a Holla Forums starter pack for you. If it just flies over your head, don't worry about it and just keep reading. Some of these rely on a knowledge of Marxist/Socialist philosophy so you might not get them right away, but you'll at least know the origin of alot of things that get talked about on Holla Forums. If you don't understand something ask questions on here or bunkerchan. Take whatever you're told with a grain or two of salt because chances are whatever you're told is being filtered through the lens of whatever particular ideology that poster has convinced himself is the right one.

As for economics stuff I don't have much material. The Richard D Wolff/Democracy @ Work monthly economic updates are basically where I started. He's usually addressing an audience that knows virtually nothing about economics, so it's very accessible. He's called a "Marxian" economist but I'm not sure how much of an actual Marxist he is. He subscribes to a Marxist interpretation of class and advocates for worker owned co-ops at least.

I go to Reuters, Yahoo Finance (it's shit but it has interactive graphs which might help you visualize and understand the movements of the various markets), and other porky-tier websites for economic news. Financial Times is the gold standard for economic analysis and discussion but it's often behind a fucking paywall. Reuters especially doesn't shrink from using industry jargon, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Whenever you come to a word or phrase that doesn't make sense then google it or take a look at investipedia to see if it has an entry because it can seriously be fucking Greek if you have no background in it at all. Try and read between the lines as best as you can because any sort of economic commentary on a mainstream site will constantly be talking out of both sides of its mouth. It's also good though to expose yourself to porky-speak, how they think, and what the fuckers are saying about the bullshit they're pulling.

Here are a couple more things for you. Yanis Varoufakis was hot shit for a while but kind of took a drubbing after the whole Greek Referendum fiasco. He's not exactly a Marxist, but he's not full on Porky, either. He also helped design the hat-based economy of TF2 for valve, so there's that, also.

Marx speed, op, hope this helps

Depends, do you want. I recommend this as a general overview of pol-econ.

academia.edu/9341032/159833685-Theories-of-Political-Economy-David-Levine

You clearly don't know what an introduction is, and you should not be giving anyone advice given your autism.

You needn't be so abrasive.

If someone asks for an introduction you don't dump 11 fucking books on them. That defeats the point of an introduction to a work, which is to expedite the learning process and get you the essentials necessary to make the work fundamentally intelligible.

lol, that's rich coming from you, you massive faggot