Chapter 10. I delved really deeply into it. And it almost becomes an ethnography or a journalistic reporting a la "The Jungle" by Sinclair, in some portions, on the working conditions of the proletariat in England and what they run into.
It also puts into very concrete terms, the abstractions from the previous chapter. Marx tends to do that. He abstracts the workings of capitalism and then he hits you with "malnourished children forcefully woken up at 3am are the source that surplus-value I am talking about".
The Working Day chapter is such a nice break from the rest of Capital up until then, just literally endless pages of suppose we have 3 shillings, and work 10 hours, and then supponse this is 1 1/2 shillings etc etc. Then he breaks into, like you said, a journalistic account of class warfare.
yeah, I think after Chapter 10, it becomes less about linen and coats but the general conditions in which we toil for the purpose of exchange and surplus value extraction.
I wanna read it again! omggggg
Really? I hate it, but understand its necessity.
I literally have a favorite chapter from Capital. It's awesome.
Which chapter, which part?
Chapter 10. I delved really deeply into it. And it almost becomes an ethnography or a journalistic reporting a la "The Jungle" by Sinclair, in some portions, on the working conditions of the proletariat in England and what they run into.
It also puts into very concrete terms, the abstractions from the previous chapter. Marx tends to do that. He abstracts the workings of capitalism and then he hits you with "malnourished children forcefully woken up at 3am are the source that surplus-value I am talking about".
The Working Day chapter is such a nice break from the rest of Capital up until then, just literally endless pages of suppose we have 3 shillings, and work 10 hours, and then supponse this is 1 1/2 shillings etc etc. Then he breaks into, like you said, a journalistic account of class warfare.
Do we finally get a break from linens and coats?
yeah, I think after Chapter 10, it becomes less about linen and coats but the general conditions in which we toil for the purpose of exchange and surplus value extraction.
Would you like to do a Book Club for it?
it was the first book we did in the book club. I just wanna come back to it in a few months or perhaps a year after I've read more theory.