Back to the basics....Against Capitalism

[RadioRaheem84]

I just purchased a copy of David Schweickart's Against Capitalism.

Would you guys recommend the book? I want to get back to the basics and understand the philosophical arguments against capitalism.

I want to couple the book with a close read of Paul Sweezy's The Theory of Capitalist Development. Is this a good read too?

Basically I want something that is easy to read and has no equations, lol. I bought Richard Wolfe's book on Neo-Classical Economics vs Marxism and it was WAY too filled with equations and graphs. Just wasn't feeling it as of yet.

I have also a copy of libertarian right winger Thomas Sowell's Marxism. Supposedly it's an unbias look at Marxism but I bet the end chapter will be utterly anti-Marxist.

[Grenzer]

Wait. You purchased the book, and now you're asking for recommendations? Seems like you have your priorities a bit mixed up, but unfortunately I've never heard of the book so I can't comment on it.

[RadioRaheem84]

Wait. You purchased the book, and now you're asking for recommendations? Seems like you have your priorities a bit mixed up, but unfortunately I've never heard of the book so I can't comment on it.

I purchase books online on a whim.

http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Three-Volumes-Marxs-Capital/dp/1583672885/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1353624193&sr=8-1&keywords=An+Introduction+to+the+Three+Volumes+of+K arl+Marx%C2%92s+Capital

Got one more if anyone's read this one?

[Pelarys]

Well you should probably read it and tell us what you think now that you've bought it.

[Grenzer]

I do that a lot too.

I haven't read that too, but if you're looking to supplements to Capital I recommend you check out the Historical Materialism book series; they have a lot of good theoretical discourse.

[RadioRaheem84]

Well what can you guys recommend? Even online stuff? I need to get back to the basics.

Magazines, online journals, anything.

[Beeth]

Well what can you guys recommend? Even online stuff? I need to get back to the basics.

Magazines, online journals, anything.

Why not Harvey? It is online and free.

[The Idler]

Sowell claims to have been a Marxist in the past.

[The Jay]

Why not Harvey? It is online and free.

He isn't that good of an economist. He talks about Capital like a bible.

[RadioRaheem84]

Has anyone read David Schweickart's Against Capitalism?

OR

http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-T...C2%92s+Capital

[RadioRaheem84]

Sowell claims to have been a Marxist in the past.

....and now he is the darling of the right libertarian intellectual movement.

But supposedly his book on Marxism is "unbiased"