On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 01:15 -0400, Horse Badorties wrote: > On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:51 PM, guava tree <[email protected]> wrote: > > > do people think reading volumes 2&3 of Capital is more valuable than > > reading the Grundrisse?
I would strongly recommend reading volumes 2 and 3 of Capital. Volume 1 is great but it's only intended to introduce the ideas of capitalism at a more abstract level. Volume 2 deals with some pretty important stuff - circulation and velocity of capital etc while it's in Volume 3 that stuff like the relationship between the laws of capitalism and things like supply and demand etc come in. OK so it also has interminable stuff on ground rent too but in every body's life a little pain must fall eh! I think not reading Vols 2 & 3 explains why a lot of people struggle to get beyond a simplistic and mechanistic understanding of capitalism. Of course it's possible to read every word Marx ever wrote and still end up with a simplistic and mechanistic understanding but if you decide to stop at Vol 1 you aren't improving your odds. I'd recommend reading it with a few other people if that's possible though. That's how I did it and it really helped. cheers, John ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
