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.

marx-hi AMA!

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    4 months ago

    David Harvey talks of teaching Capital as an elective to CUNY students from all different disciplines. He was surprised to find how differently it was read by people with different expertise. The literature/creative writing students got loads out of Marx’ metaphors of vampires, for example.

    There’s a massive Gothic strain especially in the first Volume which is fascinating, and there’s a body of critical work analyzing it as well