Finally finished the third volume of Capital. Not going to lie, it was a challenge and quite a journey, but well worth it. Rip to the many, many highlighters that gave their lives for this endeavor.
AMA!
Damn comrade you’re officially stronger than most marxists(including me, pathetically tapping out at vol 2).
Honest opinion, is volume 3 worth it? I’ve never gone for it, but I’m also one of those weirdos who loves the young Marx and stuff like the German ideology…
Overall, I’d say yes. It has some of his most important insights that really build on the basic analyses in Vol 2 to show how capitalism is a historically transitory mode of production that contains within itself the seeds of its own abolishment. If anything I’d say if you’ve already gotten through Vol 2, which can be pretty dry at times, you might as well.
On the other hand, it also has some difficult parts. The stuff about ground rent is kinda and some parts that are fragmentary (like Vol 2)
Are you referring mainly to the falling rate of profit, or are there other conclusions worth knowing about?
are women bourgeoisie?
near mint spines
Smh
I have no idea what people do to the spines of their books to where they’re all fucked up when they finish with them. All the wear on these is just from toting them around with me everywhere
I fold them in half when I read. But I’m abusive and have needed to glue pages back in before lol
Easy, with these same books use whatever I can find as a bookmark (or more than one rando thin thing) while I hunt down whatever I was typing or scrawling notes on, maybe if said thing was a 2000s laptop slap it down on the book while I reflect on my notes. Then another good one is jumping from page whatever to the references to see the full context and then taking note on that, then flipping back, paper books hate that.
I crack the hell out of the spine before reading cause it keeps the book open easier
Apparently there are some people who tear out a page when they’re done reading it
I’m not saying that there’s a book hell, but I am saying that you would definitely go there for that
You can ‘break in’ a spine without breaking it!! You stand it on its spine, ready to read, with all the pages closed. Then you open a few pages from the front to the table. Then a few pages from the back. Then a few from the front. Then the back. Etc, etc, working towards the middle. It stops the spine warping, too.
That’s not Harry Potter
The respective thicknesses reminds me of His Dark Materials. Sorry I had to go all lib there.
