David Harvey- A companion to Marx's capital

[Anonymous No.8628378]

Will this book allow an retarded autist like me to actually get through Das Kapital? The way marx writes fucking terrifies me and makes me very insecure about my intelligence

[Anonymous No.8628388]

>>8628378
It'll definitely help, but it's worth remembering that Das Kapital is not a textbook, but an argument, if you go in to it with literally no knowledge of economic theory, then you are going to leave not knowing whatthefuck you just read, so if you have no understanding of Econ, then at the very least read something like Economics for Dummies first.
Also, when reading any of Marx's work, it helps to have a decent understanding of the historical context, (this is mostly true of his political work, but it helps with the economic stuff too), for this I would recommend Eric Hobsbawm's Long 19th Century trilogy.
Also, it helps to have an understanding of Diamat going in, but there's really no way to achieve that without reading all of the works of Kant and Hegel first, so I'm going to recommend you skip it.
Also, bare in mind that Capitals Vol. 1 & 2 are not Marx's only economic works, or his first. Capital was meant to be Six Volumes long, with a rough sketch/abbreviation/first draft/whatever being published long before any of the completed volumes in the form of the Grundrisse. I would recommend reading that before advancing in to Volume 1.

[Anonymous No.8628402]

>>8628388
Cheers mate I'll probably do some more reading so I'm less retarded before I go for Das Kapital

What are some good Econ intros in your opinion?

[Anonymous No.8628720]

First,read his earlier works if you haven't in this order,they can be found at marxists.org.
You should start by reading on early social theorists and economists such as Adam Smith,Proudhon,Rousseau and others who influenced him.
>The Ego and its Own by Max Stirner
>Theses on Feuerbach
>Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith
>The Principles of Communism
>Wage Labour and Capital
>Critique of the Gotha Program
>Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
>The Communist Manifesto
>A Critique of the German Ideology
>Anti-Duhring
>The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
>The Civil War in France
>Condition of the English Working Class
>German Peasants war
>The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
>Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
>Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
>Preface to Contribution to critique of political economy
>Wage-Labour and Capital
>Value, Price and Profit

>http://www.generation-online.org/p/fpalthusser11.htm

You might as well read Hegel's Logic and then after that you can tackle Das Kapital

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[Anonymous No.8628960]

[Anonymous No.8629145]

>>8628378

dont read this marxist crap, join the nationalsozialistische deutsche arbeiterpartei!

[Anonymous No.8629161]

>>8628960
It's pretty obvious Nietzsche indeed said nein to reading Das Kapital because his critique of socialism only fits socialists before Marx.

[Anonymous No.8629172]

Marx's articles are a good place to start and to get a feel for his prose style as well as his argument. He seems incapable of writing anything that doesn't throw out at least one really excellent insight, unlike a lot of other writers in the left tradition he is most definitely not boring.

[Anonymous No.8629252]

>>8628388
i would disagree. i had no knowledge of economics or any of marxs other work before reading the 3 volumes of capital and i managed it just fine. of course reading the thinkers associated with him did enrich my understanding after the fact

[Anonymous No.8629261]

>>8628402
not him but Strathern's Dr Strangelove's Game is a great economic history intro.
also, Engels by himself is much easier to read than Marx and makes far more sense.

[Anonymous No.8629389]

>>8629145
>don't read

fixed that for you