Studying Capital

[Positivist]

So I want to go into an indepth study of capital, and I am looking for good study guides, prereads and commentaries. Also any advice on reading the piece itself would be appreciated. I heard once that reading chapter 3 first makes it significanlty easier to understand.

Thanks!

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

This would be your best bet:

http://davidharvey.org/reading-capital/


Those lectures are really useful.

[Teacher]

There is a blog called kapitalism101 that has videos to go along with it that I also found really useful.

Harvey is good but I would take exception with some of his interpretations. He has a book that goes along with Capital that my friends have told me is a useful to read alongside.

[Positivist]

Does anyone know anything about reading chapter 3 first making it easy to read?

[Comrades Unite!]

Does anyone know anything about reading chapter 3 first making it easy to read?

Yes it does.
The first and second Chapters are among the hardest to understand in the book.

Read from C.3 and then go back and finish of with C.1 and C.3

[Lucretia]

I may be old fashioned in saying this, but I think Marx places chapter one first for a reason, and it's not just to conform to some irrelevant conceptual roadmap he contrived in his own head. Chapter one is difficult, especially for somebody just delving into Marxism for the first time, but once you've really mastered and understood its contents, you will get so much more from your subsequent reading of chapter 3. Trust me. A lot of people like David Harvey make the point that you don't truly understand chapter one until you get to the end, but the converse is also true: you can skip chapter one, but you will not completely or really understand the rest of the book until you've gone back and read it.

[Book O'Dead]

I may be old fashioned in saying this, but I think Marx places chapter one first for a reason, and it's not just to conform to some irrelevant conceptual roadmap he contrived in his own head. Chapter one is difficult, especially for somebody just delving into Marxism for the first time, but once you've really mastered and understood its contents, you will get so much more from your subsequent reading of chapter 3. Trust me. A lot of people like David Harvey make the point that you don't truly understand chapter one until you get to the end, but the converse is also true: you can skip chapter one, but you will not completely or really understand the rest of the book until you've gone back and read it.

"There is no Royal road to science..."