That's really not it, 19th century philosophy (and beyond really) is quite impenetrable without either reading the entirety of the context or a very good companion book. Like reading Frege's foundation of arithmetic was a struggle for me as a mathematician with some philosophy background, because a large chunk of it was him sorting out beefs with contemporaries. And I really don't think that the Anglo publishing history really cares what you think about his conception of a number.
If twitch pogs approached it the same way they approach Star Wars and 40K lore it wouldn't be all that impenetrable
Motherfuckers will literally be like "I spent 100 hours learning the economic system of Eurpoa Universalis 4, and now I'll spend another 100 hours beating the tutorial" but figuring out the context of Marx's 18th of Brumaire apparently requires one to be at the height of academic excellence
I'm gonna be real, the only real difficult work of Marx is Capital vol 1 and maybe parts of Vol 3, other than that it's pretty easy to get the gist of what's going on
honestly, yeah. i'm not sure why a lot of people here are acting like Marx is incredibly tough, it's really not. the english isn't too archaic either, Shakespeare is way, way harder to read. some more recent academics like Teubner or Luhmann are much, much harder to read than Marx. they are a lot more of a slog to get through too.
English translations of Marx are universally dogshit (I believe it's intentional, Anglo publishing industry is reactionary as hell)
But that's what Mao's for :mao-aggro-shining:
That's really not it, 19th century philosophy (and beyond really) is quite impenetrable without either reading the entirety of the context or a very good companion book. Like reading Frege's foundation of arithmetic was a struggle for me as a mathematician with some philosophy background, because a large chunk of it was him sorting out beefs with contemporaries. And I really don't think that the Anglo publishing history really cares what you think about his conception of a number.
If twitch pogs approached it the same way they approach Star Wars and 40K lore it wouldn't be all that impenetrable
Motherfuckers will literally be like "I spent 100 hours learning the economic system of Eurpoa Universalis 4, and now I'll spend another 100 hours beating the tutorial" but figuring out the context of Marx's 18th of Brumaire apparently requires one to be at the height of academic excellence
I'm gonna be real, the only real difficult work of Marx is Capital vol 1 and maybe parts of Vol 3, other than that it's pretty easy to get the gist of what's going on
honestly, yeah. i'm not sure why a lot of people here are acting like Marx is incredibly tough, it's really not. the english isn't too archaic either, Shakespeare is way, way harder to read. some more recent academics like Teubner or Luhmann are much, much harder to read than Marx. they are a lot more of a slog to get through too.
:cri: 18th of brumaire is hard to read with the context :cri: