Hello, /lit/. I've been starting to read more difficult

>>8596155
I don't really know what to say to your first claim, I think you should just probably just be more patient with yourself and the texts. And yes, David Harvey's companion is probably your best resource for reading Capital today as primarily an economic text. Easy to understand and good stuff.

>>8596170
I was mainly being hyperbolic with the first claim. I think that you're right about having more patience, though, I'll work on that.

if you can't understand Capital by itself then you have no business reading it
Harvey is slightly disingenuous and way too snarky

>>8596180
>if you can't understand Capital by itself then you have no business reading it
>Harvey is...way too snarky

kekd

>>8596179
It depends on what you're trying to read, but there's a big difference between something like The Prince or The Republic and Nietzsche or Hegel. You don't need any background besides the english language really to read the first two but you're going to have an extremely bad time going in a philosophy virgin with the latter. Having any good secondary source to look at, such as plato.stanford.edu for philosophy or most "guide to X thought" textbooks is a good place to start if you're lost.
Will post the complete "4chan guide to capital" next post

>>8596201
Volume 1 and 2 of Capital are a closed model which constitutes an inferior form of analysis distinct from the 3rd volume which functions on the basis of an open model of capitalism.

Remember when you're reading volume 1 of Capital Marx presentation was centred on the process of capitalist production itself without any secondary admixtures but the analysis of the value form provides insight into the intelligible structure of capitalism itself
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-form

By volume 3 he uncovers the means by which capitalist credit and monetary processes – the actual forms of the process of capitalist circulation – reflect the internal contradictions in the form of an accumulation of fictitious capital such that all the contradictions of capital otherwise adduced actually occur not in the hypothetical forms of their formal necessity, but as contradictions associated with the accumulation of fictitious capitals in the monetary/credit facets of capitalist accumulation itself... thus the internal contradictions of capitalist accumulation are manifested as monetary crises and crises of liquidity.

Capitalist accumulation is a specific form of human society, in terms of the fundamental relationship of man's productive labour to nature as man finds and alters it. This he situates within the empirical setting of the issue of rent... from here he adduces the general law of evolutionary human reproduction... and the treatment of the general notion of capitalist phenomena with respect to that general law.


If you really want to "get" Capital you should understand all this:

Kant's Critique of Practical Reason
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-reason/

The preface, introduction, and opening chapters through the "Organic" of Hegel's The Phenomenology of Mind
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=1e4a42e36378df8dd4c0eed54da4a201

The opening chapter of Feuerbach's The Essence of Christianity and his Principles of the Philosophy of the Future
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/feuerbach/works/essence/
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/feuerbach/works/future/index.htm

"Contribution to a Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right"
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/index.htm

The concluding chapter of the 1844 Manuscripts
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/preface.htm

"Feuerbach," from The German Ideology and the "Theses on Feuerbach."
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm

From Marx's Grundrisse, the Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/precapitalist/

The preface and appendix to the Critique of Political Economy
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1859/critique-pol-economy/

Marx's "Critique of the Gotha Programme"
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/index.htm

>>8596201
That may be a problem that I am having. The philosophy that I have taken interest in has been Enlightenment era thinkers (Kant, Rousseau, little bit of Paine) and those who were inspired by them (Nietzsche and Schopenhauer mostly).

Thank you for >>8596202. I think it will really help me get the text

One last thing. As part of my admission to college, I have access to jstor. I haven't used it yet, but is it helpful?

>>8596226
Yeah JSTOR is a very valuable resource just learn how to use it effectively, how to search properly, and it will aid you in both your papers and your own studies.

>>8596180
I hate the Harvey meme. He's for plebs

>>8596444
Is he really a meme? I was looking at Capital on Amazon and this book showed up as a secondary resource. What's wrong with him?

>>8596444
Nice trips btw

>>8596155

>Reading Marx

Wow, I can smell the ressentiment from here.

>>8596769
How exactly is reading Marx indicative of ressentiment?

>>8597929
He was talking about himself

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>>8597929

Marxism in general is ressentiment par excellence.

>>8597934
Examples?

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>>8597934
Yeah man, lefties are simply inferior to ubermensch like us. They are filled with ressentiment. They need the redpill of objectivity

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>>8597938

The point is proven not so much by examples as by Marxist thinking itself. I will elaborate if this thread's still up tomorrow.

>>8597943

>Implying I'm /pol/
>Implying I'm not the anti-political master race

>>8597961
Lol no you won't. You're just another pretentious shit poster. Have a nice life