So what should I read before Das Kapital to be properly prepared?

>>8995283
http://oxfordbibliographiesonline.com/view/document/obo-9780199756223/obo-9780199756223-0171.xml?rskey=7Ro917&result=2&q=karl+marx#firstMatch

What is it with /lit/fags who think they can get anything out of these massive tomes without accompanying peer reviewed monographs?

>>8995293
http://oxfordbibliographiesonline.com/view/document/obo-9780199743292/obo-9780199743292-0041.xml?rskey=7Ro917&result=5&q=karl+marx#firstMatch

Those were journals, here are individual publications.

spoiler: marx is a fraud

>>8995283
https://www.amazon.com/Big-Con-Story-Confidence-Man-ebook/dp/B004774D1E/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1484841799&sr=1-1&keywords=con+men

>>8995283

your best bet, if you want to dive straight in, is to follow along the harvey lectures.

if you're really interested in commodities, value, and the rest, meghnand desai's book Marxian Economics is a very concise introduction to the whole theory, as well as explaining some (again, purely economic) debates from the 20th century.

if you're more interested in culture and history, and if you can, pick up the Grundrisse, the one penguin publishes, and read the introduction to that. the translator there lays out in perfectly lucid terms the relation between marxian and hegelian dialectic, something which many people are still in the dark about.

capital is a fun fucking book, once you get used to marx's rhythm, and especially if you've worked menially for any significant portion of your life.

>>8995283
The German Ideology
Heinrich's intro
Althusser, "Reading Capital"

>>8995283

There is no reason not to read the Manifesto beforehand, if you haven't. If you read it once some time ago, read it again. It is short, quick, fairly easy, and gives you an idea of the prose to expect (inflected by Engels, of course), with nineteenth-century metaphors employed regularly. Further, it was written well before Capital, so the chronology is right.

>>8995750

actually, there are a lot of reasons not to read the manifesto first, namely the fact that it will give you a completely distorted and stupidly stereotypical idea of how marx understands history. class struggle, yes. but the teleological argument of the manifesto—the time is nigh, we only have our chains to lose, etc—is marred with the bad kind of hegelianism and has demonstrably lead to limp-wristed left praxis in the west for past 100 years following the russian revolution.

>>8995283
Animal farm

>>8995283
On the Jewish Question
The Communist Manifest pt. I