Oh my goodness it’s Thursday and I’m posting this. I’m ashamed.


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.

Archives: Week 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6Week 7Week 8Week 9Week 10Week 11Week 12Week 13Week 14Week 15Week 16Week 17Week 18Week 19Week 20Week 21Week 22Week 23Week 24


Das Kapital reading group, Week 25, June 17-23. From Volume 2, we are reading Chapter 16: Part 2 The Turnover of an Individual Variable Capital, Chapter 16: Part 3 The Turnover of Variable Capital from the Social Point of View, and Chapter 17 The Circulation of Surplus-Value


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


Discuss the week’s reading in the comments.