Let me see if I've got Chapter 16 (Das Kapital, duh) down right.

[Broletariat]

It seems like the main points here are as follows.

1. Productive labour under Capitalism is labour which produces surplus-value.

2. Countries with super-awesome natural resources and abundance are less likely to become Capitalist first.

Other than that it just looks like Marx slamming Ricardo and Mills, am I missing something important?

[Who?]

You're already up to chapter 16?

When did you start?

[Broletariat]

You're already up to chapter 16?

When did you start?

Way too fucking long ago.

Start of the summer, I did it a chapter a week up until like chapter 5, then I did a chapter a day.

But then came the beast that was chapter 15.

Up until chapter 15 most chapters had been mostly informative containing lots of material to reflect on. Chapter 15 had a lot of words, but little content from what I gather. This intimidated me and I couldn't find the content I so longed for.

I stopped reading for a long long time before again picking it up.

If you want all my notes just PM me.

[Broletariat]

le bump

[Rusty Shackleford]

havent read it but point 2 could easily be supplemented with guns germs and steel. (the whole point of that book and documentary are about geography and social/economic development)

watching that inspired me to read origin of the family(Engels) which is a good secondary supplement although pretty much a tangent off of the point in Ch. 16.