Capital Reading Group
Von webmaster • Feb. 17th, 2012 • Kategorie: InternationalCapital Reading Group
Since the financial crisis it seems there is a new interest emerging in reading Marx‘ Capital. Yet, for many new readers this encounter is rather brief, since Capital is no easy book to read. Especially the first six chapters present a frustrating hurdle to many readers, such that Karl Marx suggested that some readers should simply skip these.
We disagree. We hold that grasping the concepts of value, exchange and abstract labour presented at the beginning of Volume 1 are indeed crucial for making sense of those later concepts now on everybody’s mind such as credit and fictitious capital.
Thus, we are starting a new (bi-)weekly Capital Volume 1 reading group, to provide the opportunity for a thorough engagement with Capital. The point of which is not to admire Marx‘ writing or to understand his method, but to use this text as a means to understand contemporary capitalism. Put differently, this is not meant as an academic exercise but as an attempt to inform our understanding of the world we live in. Consequently, being a Marxist of some sort is not a prerequisite for taking part. On the contrary, in the interest of understanding modern capitalism, we want to engage with Capital critically.
The reading group will start on 12 March, 2012, 7pm in Red Lion (Upstairs)
41 Hoxton Street
London, N1 6NH
http://junge-linke.org/en/capital-reading-group
