Explain the bookclub: We are reading Volumes 1, 2, and 3 in one year and discussing it in weekly threads. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included in this particular reading club, but comrades are encouraged to do other solo and collaborative reading.) This bookclub will repeat yearly. The three volumes in a year works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46⅔ pages a week.
I'll post the readings at the start of each week and @mention anybody interested. Let me know if you want to be added or removed.
Just joining us? You can use the archives below to help you reading up to where the group is. There is another reading group on a different schedule at https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou (federated at !genzhou@lemmygrad.ml ) which may fit your schedule better. The idea is for the bookclub to repeat annually, so there's always next year.
Archives: Week 1 – Week 2 – Week 3 – Week 4 – Week 5 – Week 6 – Week 7 – Week 8 – Week 9 – Week 10 – Week 11 – Week 12 – Week 13 – Week 14 – Week 15 – Week 16 – Week 17 – Week 18 – Week 19 – Week 20 – Week 21 – Week 22 – Week 23
When I wade up to my neck through a dizzying array of tables wondering why the hell we're going on about releasing capital, only to emerge on the other end and have Engels explain that he thinks most of that was not necessary and that Marx was probably unhelpfully fixated on that.
Seriously though that was probably the least engaging part of the reading to me so far.
Anyone disagree with Engels? It's kinda interesting to see the editorial note in the text. If anyone thinks he misses the mark though I'd love to have it explained, because I also missed the mark if so.
Not done with this week's reading yet but yeah... so far I'm not getting much from it either