Getting into some good stuff here. This week's reading is a few pages shorter than normal.

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. However, we're a bit ahead of the curve right now, and can slow down to about 41 pages a week.

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Week 35, Aug 26-Sept 1 – From Part III of Volume III we are reading Chapter 13 (The Law as Such) and Chapter 14 (Counteracting Influences). This is the part about the tendency of the rate of profit to fall.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/index.htm

Discuss the week's reading in the comments.

  • Kolibri [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    Is this a typo from Marx?

    But it is not this relative magnitude alone which falls. The magnitude of the surplus-value or profit absorbed by the total capital of 100 also falls absolutely. At a rate of surplus-value of 100%, a capital of 60c + 40v produces a mass of surplus-value, and hence of profit, amounting to 40; a capital of 70c + 230v a mass of profit of 30; and for a capital of 80c + 20v the profit falls to 20.

    Because Marx really confused me with that sudden 230v, and the only thing I can think of is it's meant to be 30v and not 230v. And it really made me lost while trying to follow along with what Marx was saying.

    Never mind, seems to be a typo on like publisher. Since on Marxists org and ProleWiki, that copy of vol 3 shows up as 230v. and in my book, it shows up as 80c + 30v instead of the 230. But the penguin edition seems to have it correct. since it shows up as 70c + 30v.