can you add me to the ping list, please? i participated last year too, but i'm ready and eager to report back to posting duty. it's also cool that we now have a complete archive of discussions to look back on.
oh and thank you for leading this year's book club!
I feel like this has to be one of the greatest value of reading Capital today. Not sure how to word this properly (especially not on mobile), but to me it seems capitalism creates layers of abstraction (beginning with the fact that all commodities, regardless of use-value, can be reduced to a 'third thing' in its exchange form), and that these layers, which obfuscated the material reality of commodities and commodity production, only intensifies over time.
Great read, thank you for the write-up!