Hop in, comrades, we are reading Capital Volumes I-III this year, and we will every year until Communism is achieved. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included, but comrades are welcome to set up other bookclubs.) This works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46 pages a week. ... read full post
Chapter 12 on the form and content of value have been especially useful for me.
IMO this text is indispensable after having read Capital volume 1. Rubin corrects many misunderstandings one might have due to certain ambiguities in the text. These misunderstandings have nonetheless precipitated many wrong interpretations by Marx’s critics and even Marxists, e.g. the Value Form school.
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The question itself might be misleading here. Considering Marx's dialectic was derived more from Hegel, the beter question would be 'how is there a contradiction inherent in concrete labor?' ... read full post
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Yes this in relation to the Luigi struggle session. Use the developing class consciousness to your advantage, don't dismiss this moment out of hand because The Adjuster has median voter type beliefs. Don't be an active do-nothing internet leftist. Talk to your friends, neighbors, coworkers, family that may also have some incoherent beliefs but support The Adjuster and instead of dismissing them as a reactionary for not being your perfect type of socialist after a lifetime of American education you could try to educate them into other areas of leftist thought. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Don't be the type of communist Lenin talks about here that splinters into their own "perfect" union of only committed communists. ... read full post
This is a little longer than usual: 52 pages instead of the average 43, but I thought it better to have extra length now rather than at Christmas. ... read full post
Let's read this and figure it out, seems important comrades. ... read full post
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. ... read full post
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4022137
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. ... read full post
Having been published in 2009, Capitalist Realism is a fascinating read in our post 2020 world. ... read full post
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. ... read full post
There is no punctual moment of disaster; the world doesn’t end with a bang, it winks out, unravels, gradually falls apart. What caused the catastrophe to occur, who knows; its cause lies long in the past, so absolutely detached from the present as to seem like the caprice of a malign being: a negative miracle, a malediction which no penitence can ameliorate. Such a blight can only be eased by an intervention that can no more be anticipated than was the onset of the curse in the first place. Action is pointless; only senseless hope makes sense. Superstition and religion, the first resorts of the helpless, proliferate. ... read full post
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. ... read full post
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. ... read full post
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. ... read full post
"The truth is we live in a “dictatorship of the capitalist class”—that is, ultimately the things they absolutely insist on (such as their ability to continue to rule society) will be enforced through violence whenever necessary, regardless of legality. ... read full post
Interesting framing 
empire is missing as per usual just as does the last time saudis did something good, mysterious omission from jacobin
Ok so I was offline all last week. ... read full post
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. ... read full post
Comrades! ... read full post
I've read a few of their books over the years and greatly enjoyed them; like October by China Miéville, Half-Earth Socialism by Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese, and How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm. Kickstarter seems to be going pretty well. I think I will support them by buying some ebooks.