/lit/ - Literature

>>10166039
I started with "Das Kapital", with no prior experience with anything remotely similar. At least the first volume was meant to be read that way, which is a single-standing work, and takes some time to digest imho.

I read Volume 1 from cover to cover (haven't read 2&3 yet, because apparently 2 requires a deep understanding of dialectic, which I don't have), but it took me six months (reading a lot of both related and unrelated stuff on the side). When I didn't understand a term, I searched for it on the internet and did some reading until I understood it.

I watched David Harveys lectures afterwards, and found them quite informative, but many people apparently disagree.

I don't know whether reading other Marx might help, since I don't know it differently, but I've heard that reading "Value, price and profit" and "Wage labour and Kapital" are both good starting points.

I also know that somebody will spring up from behind the bushes and shout something about reading more, which can be done here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g6XaOX8RldHRg_JradONkS99oE6uC5dc9EuyOa5rips/edit

Quote:

> For whatever reason it may be (too busy being exploited, poor, or just plain disenfranchised), skip everything above and just dive into Marx. I’m quite well aware that some who want to learn about Marxism do not have the leisure time to read the whole philosophical canon preceding Marx. If so my sympathies. I suggest you start by reading the book below or if you really don’t have time just start with Marx himself.


Hope this helps.

>>10166039

>>10166039

What do you regard the fourth volume of Capital to be, anon?

>>10166142
Theories of surplus value

>>10166113
>>10166136
Thanks guys

>>10166039
>reading outdated theories of socioeconomics
>laboring to do so

>>10166311
What do you recommend, dear Anon

>>10166311
>posting an outdated anime