Sorry I’m late posting this.

Explain the bookclub: We are reading Volumes 1, 2, and 3 in one year and discussing it in weekly threads. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included in this particular reading club, but comrades are encouraged to do other solo and collaborative reading.) This bookclub will repeat yearly. The three volumes in a year works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46⅔ pages a week. However, we’re a bit ahead of the curve right now, and can slow down to about 41 pages a week.

I’ll post the readings at the start of each week and @mention anybody interested. Let me know if you want to be added or removed.


Just joining us? You can use the archives below to help you reading up to where the group is. There is another reading group on a different schedule at https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou (federated at !genzhou@lemmygrad.ml ) which may fit your schedule better. The idea is for the bookclub to repeat annually, so there’s always next year.

Archives: Week 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6Week 7Week 8Week 9Week 10Week 11Week 12Week 13Week 14Week 15Week 16Week 17Week 18Week 19Week 20Week 21Week 22Week 23Week 24Week 25Week 26Week 27Week 28Week 29Week 30Week 31Week 32Week 33


Week 34, Aug 19-25 – We are finishing Part Two of Volume III (Part Two is called Conversion of Profit into Average Profit) we are reading Chapter 10 (Equalisation of the General Rate of Profit Through Competition. Market-Prices and Market-Values. Surplus-Profit.) and Chapter 11 (Effects of General Wage Fluctuations on Prices of Production) and Chapter 12 (Supplementary Remarks)


https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/index.htm


Discuss the week’s reading in the comments.

  • Doubledee [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    I really appreciated the analysis of how supply and demand are illusory ways to explain why things have a price, that they revolve around a central point that is taken for granted by vulgar economics. I feel like ‘value is what people are willing to pay’ is a common liberal brainworm and having that analysis might be really helpful in talking about that idea with libs.