I just got assigned to go into a reading group about Das Kapital from Marx.I know that the book it's quite dense and filled with ideas coming from Hegel and Feuerbach, so my teacher decided to put up the guide that Althusser wrote (Reading Capital), ye

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Anonymous 10/19/15 (Mon) 19:06:37 No.7092

I just got assigned to go into a reading group about Das Kapital from Marx.

I know that the book it's quite dense and filled with ideas coming from Hegel and Feuerbach, so my teacher decided to put up the guide that Althusser wrote (Reading Capital), yet I'm kind of divided about only reading Althusser since I know that for one he is very close to Lacanian-Psychoanalysis, and that can add another layer of complexity in terminology and whatnot. Plus, I do not competely agree with psychoanalysis, so I'd like to know what are some other books that can help me with reading Das Kapital that can give me a bigger scope.

Also, I guess this can also serve as a thread to discuss Marx.

Anonymous 10/19/15 (Mon) 20:05:42 No.7093

>>7092

browse tumblr and let niggers stick it in your butt or something whatever.

Anonymous 10/19/15 (Mon) 21:11:08 No.7094

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Marx was a true neckbeard/fedora, through and through. Bakunin and Stirner made him furious. He could never reconcile himself with his ideals. Cognitive dissonance of that order resounds through time.

Oh Marx! Had ye only trudged to Calvary

bearing thy instrument of death

then thee thyself, apothecary,

may've modified thy word to flesh.

-Nor Nasso

Anonymous 10/20/15 (Tue) 15:47:09 No.7107

>>7092

i can't help you. i've only read the manifesto.

interesting read. but honestly the only way to have me reading das Kapital is having me to stranded on a desert island with it and nothing else.

Anonymous 11/02/15 (Mon) 03:05:52 No.7351

I'm late replying to this, but I just saw it in the catalog. I haven't read Kapital cover to cover, but Harvey does pretty good lectures that I've watched on specific subjects, plus wrote a companion book.

http://www.amazon.com/Companion-Marxs-Capital-Vols-Shrinkwrapped/dp/1781682496/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1446433352&sr=8-2&keywords=capital+companion

and the lectures

http://davidharvey.org/reading-capital/

If you're struggling with it watching his lectures before you read the corresponding chapters might help. I find the way that he explains things super helpful, you sort of know what the big ideas are going into it and have a better idea of things relate going into it.

Anonymous 11/02/15 (Mon) 03:09:21 No.7352

>>7092

>>7351

also the only context that I have heard Althusser discussed in relation to Marx is regarding determinism. There's a Marx quotation that Harvey (from above) argues (in the technology lecture) was taken out of context and blown up to invalidate Marx by making him seem like a technological determinant (as he is broadly interpreted). Whereas Althusser in contrast described many complex social systems interacting, where the processes affect other processes and so there is no "superstructure".

Anonymous 11/03/15 (Tue) 08:21:42 No.7373

I have "Marx's Das Kapital For Beginners" by Micael Wayne. Assuming it's reliable, makes everything really simple actually. Also have a few chapters lying around in another book.

So I can answer any questions you have without sinking into psychoanalysis.

Anonymous 11/03/15 (Tue) 17:58:43 No.7375

Universities really are commie brainwashing centers.

OP which Wendys are you planning on working at after you graduate with your English degree?