capital reading group

[Anonymous No.15726526]

Can someone make a capital reading group to make my read waaaay less of a slog.

[Anonymous No.15726629]

>>15726526
>capital reading group
That's no good, even less in quarantine and with strangers
I'm in, however

[Anonymous No.15726936]

>>15726526

"Niggas don't be thinkin the bourgeoisie be how it is but it do. Das Rite." (Coronameron, 2020)

[Anonymous No.15727569]

>>15726526
I'm in. If we get more people I'll make a Discord group

[Anonymous No.15727575]

Has a reading group ever worked once? Even books that are 30 pages long fail

[Anonymous No.15727691]

>>15727575
There was a Nietzsche reading group a while back and maybe 3 people besides me actually did the weekly reading with dozens of other server members not saying a word. It's bizarre. Something similar would happen here probably.

[Anonymous No.15727732]

>>15727691
Reading groups in my experience never work but it's even worse on this website. Why would you do a reading group on a website where the thread is going to die in 20 minutes?

[Anonymous No.15728028]

>>15726526
literally just join a reading group hosted by your local DSA or PSL chapter. That's what they are good for. A lot of times there will be old retired professors that will attend and have a really great grasp on the material or people that have read it multiple times and can help guide you.

[Anonymous No.15728564]

can someone make this? i actually want to join it

[Anonymous No.15728609]

>>15726526
The whole thing or just the first volume?

Can anyone tell if it's essential to read the other two, or does the first provide enough of a foundation that the others can be considered just a development of it? Isn't the whole thing almost Proust-size in length?

Even Piketty, for God's sake, has not read the Capital. Even Taleb hasn't read all of it.

I don't see the point. It seems that people read it for the same reason that they read the whole Summa: either because they are religious, or because they want to say that they've read a big book.

It would probably more profitable to read the whole of Mommsen, for sure. Or the whole of Proust. Or even Knausgaard, or the four great Chinese novels, or a big history of England, another of France, and another of Spain, or simply read through 2,000 pages of Medieval Chronicles.
All of that would give you both more enjoyment and knowledge than reading an outdated work of economics - a science which even today is still very full of epistemic problems.

[Anonymous No.15728617]

>>15726526
Could be interesting. Maybe a telegram group?

[SAGE No.15728639]

What was all that about marxist-/lit/inists being well-read? I thought marxists were supposed to be the intellectuals here.

[Anonymous No.15728890]

>>15728609
>or a big history of England, another of France, and another of Spain, or simply read through 2,000 pages of Medieval Chronicles.
This.
Marxist propositions are automatically debunked by simple knowledge of an actual history and only literal morons with no basic education can be attracted by it.
Seriously, get a grasp of reality before taking on philosophical works or you are bound to swallow any bullshit they throw at you.

[Anonymous No.15728921]

>>15726526
Why does the title of this book sound so much better in languages that aren't English?:
>Das cap-ee-tall
>El cap-ee-tall
>Il cap-ee-tall-ay
and then
>Cap-ittle

[Anonymous No.15729443]

>>15726526
guys, I created a discord reading group
please check it out, I think this could be very fun
join in and let's debate Capital!
(I accept suggestions for the server and we need moderators!)

https://discord.gg/PHa8kfz

[Anonymous No.15729465]

>>15728028
>literally just join a reading group hosted by your local DSA or PSL chapter
>go hang out with a bunch of fags and trust fund kiddies who are going to butcher what the book says

[Anonymous No.15729474]

>>15729465
that's why people has to join to the official /lit Capital reading server >>15729443

[Anonymous No.15729477]

>>15728890
>Marxist propositions are automatically debunked by simple knowledge of an actual history
Want to know how I know you've never read a page of Marx or even Lenin?

[Anonymous No.15729514]

>>15729477
Out of boredom I've read plenty from bookshelves in schools in my then-commie country.

[Anonymous No.15729914]

>>15729514
Marx was not right about everything by any stretch but he was right about quite a bit.

[Anonymous No.15729976]

>>15726526
>written by Marx
>is sold for $16 in the apple bookstore

[Anonymous No.15730172]

>>15729976
>he doesn't use IRC to download ebooks
I don't call it piracy, I call it redistribution of knowledge

[Anonymous No.15731046]

>>15730172
Is it still redistribution if not stolen from anyone?

[Anonymous No.15731084]

>>15731046
HA! You dare talk about stealing in a thread about Marxism? Get lost, faggot.