/r/DiscussCapital
A group to discuss Volume I of Marx's Capital accompanied by David Harvey's lecture series.
You can find Capital in multiple formats here, and Harvey's lectures here.
Schedule for discussions (tentative):
Chapters 1-2: 25/06/11 Wiki
Chapter 3: 02/07/11
Chapters 4-6: 09/07/11
Chapters 7-9: 16/07/11
Chapters 10-11: 23/07/11
Chapters 12-14: 30/07/11
...more to come if this schedule works well.
For this week: Read Chapter 3, discuss chapters 1 and 2.
/r/DiscussCapital
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There were very few people discussing the first couple of chapters last week. Perhaps it was naive of me to expect everyone to participate. Does anyone have any ideas for getting more people to discuss?
Also, I'll be travelling this weekend, so I need someone to volunteer to start the discussion.
Harvey's lecture. Ask questions to the group, give your opinions, start discussions. I won't be able to participate this weekend because I don't have internet, but I hope you all have interesting discussions!
http://kapitalism101.wordpress.com/
All the videos labeled "Econ 101" are about concepts in Capital Vol. 1. I watched these before reading capital and I can't imagine how lost I would have been without this background knowledge. Ignore the "Law of value" series if you are a beginner. It's really good but relates to Vol. 1 in a very round-about way. I'd recommend reading capital before getting into that.
What do people think of a scheduled time for a real time chat as well to discussion parts of Capital?
It can make some things easier (and others harder...) than a comment based format like Reddit.
Nebula42 suggested that we find some way to take notes together, possibly through a google doc. Any other suggestions?