Began Capital, Vol III and Giovanni Arrighi's Adam Smith in Beijing this week. On Kindle I'm going through China Mieville's October and Paul Cockshott's Towards a New Socialism
That's because Vol II deals with largely technical rather than political aspects of capitalism, that being circulation, turnover, and flows of capital between departments of the economy. Engels explicitly acknowledged this when corresponding with Russian(?) Marxists. It's filled with a lot of tedious mathematical formulas and equations which will literally put you to sleep.
Began Capital, Vol III and Giovanni Arrighi's Adam Smith in Beijing this week. On Kindle I'm going through China Mieville's October and Paul Cockshott's Towards a New Socialism
Ah, I have always heard more hype about VOL I and VOL III, never much about VOL II.
That's because Vol II deals with largely technical rather than political aspects of capitalism, that being circulation, turnover, and flows of capital between departments of the economy. Engels explicitly acknowledged this when corresponding with Russian(?) Marxists. It's filled with a lot of tedious mathematical formulas and equations which will literally put you to sleep.
have you read the long twentieth century by Arrighi's?
Yes, as well as Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System