Explain the bookclub: We are reading Volumes 1, 2, and 3 in one year and discussing it in weekly threads. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included in this particular reading club, but comrades are encouraged to do other solo and collaborative reading.) This bookclub will repeat yearly. The three volumes in a year works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46⅔ pages a week.

I’ll post the readings at the start of each week and @mention anybody interested. Let me know if you want to be added or removed.


Just joining us? You can use the archives below to help you reading up to where the group is. There is another reading group on a different schedule at https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou (federated at [email protected] ) which may fit your schedule better. The idea is for the bookclub to repeat annually, so there’s always next year.

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Week 21, May 20-26. From Volume 2, we are reading Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, and Part 1 (‘Distinctions of Form’) of Chapter 8


https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1885-c2/index.htm


Discuss the week’s reading in the comments.

  • Sasuke [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    thanks for recommending the paper, i’ll definitely check it out!

    i’d also really appreciate if you would be willing to share your notes with us (if you have time, of course!). i find some of this stuff so difficult it’s hard sometimes to even know which questions to ask

    • star_wraith [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      6 months ago

      Absolutely. Maybe I can just scan them to text and share, might be a bit disorganized since I just did it free form to help my knowledge but if it’s helpful I can share them.