Read this with a Reading group this summer. Marx's own crash course to his economic arguments and theory of surplus-value made in Capital Vol.1. Seems like a good starting point to discuss Marx's ideas of how Capitalism work and the economic arguments to how workers are robbed of their worth when they sell their time to a boss.
Best read with a marxist or someone whose read Capital or one of the countless works trying to summarize Marx's economic works. This book alone is still hard to grasp the concepts without discussion or familiarity with reading theory or economic texts, though it feels like a good effort for an amateur economist like Marx to distill his ideas down for your average worker.
If you want a plain and simple introduction to these ideas, read The Housing Monster or Abolish Restaurants by Prole.info, after that this is probably the best introductory …
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Leaving_Marx reviewed Value, Price and Profit by Karl Marx
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4 stars
Read this with a Reading group this summer. Marx's own crash course to his economic arguments and theory of surplus-value made in Capital Vol.1. Seems like a good starting point to discuss Marx's ideas of how Capitalism work and the economic arguments to how workers are robbed of their worth when they sell their time to a boss.
Best read with a marxist or someone whose read Capital or one of the countless works trying to summarize Marx's economic works. This book alone is still hard to grasp the concepts without discussion or familiarity with reading theory or economic texts, though it feels like a good effort for an amateur economist like Marx to distill his ideas down for your average worker.
If you want a plain and simple introduction to these ideas, read The Housing Monster or Abolish Restaurants by Prole.info, after that this is probably the best introductory text to Marx's economic ideas directly from Marx himself.
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Leaving_Marx reviewed In Defense of Looting by Vicky Osterweil
Looting -- a crowd of people publicly, openly, and directly seizing goods -- is one …
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5 stars
Vicky did a fantastic job of laying out a history of riotous actions and the expropriation of property as a time honored tradition with anti-capitalism and anti-racist struggles within the US.
Each chapter laid out a fantastic list of sources and materials painting a compelling picture of the struggles in the streets and communities that labour, abolitionist, and black communities have engaged in since the establishment of the US.
I found some of the necessary chapters felt like review, specifically the origins of policing in the US to closely follow arguments made in Kristian Williams Our Enemy in Blue and Saralee Stafford & Neil Shirley's Dixie Be Damned. But if you haven't read either of those books then you'll find it a facinating look at the slave patrols to police timeline.
I really appreciated vicky's interjections laying out her critiques of racial-capitalism in the US, grounded in black liberation and …
Vicky did a fantastic job of laying out a history of riotous actions and the expropriation of property as a time honored tradition with anti-capitalism and anti-racist struggles within the US.
Each chapter laid out a fantastic list of sources and materials painting a compelling picture of the struggles in the streets and communities that labour, abolitionist, and black communities have engaged in since the establishment of the US.
I found some of the necessary chapters felt like review, specifically the origins of policing in the US to closely follow arguments made in Kristian Williams Our Enemy in Blue and Saralee Stafford & Neil Shirley's Dixie Be Damned. But if you haven't read either of those books then you'll find it a facinating look at the slave patrols to police timeline.
I really appreciated vicky's interjections laying out her critiques of racial-capitalism in the US, grounded in black liberation and feminist thought.
I wish this was a book I could offer parents, non-political friends or coworkers because her writing and train of thought throughout the book was compelling, concise, and not overtly speaking to an audience that already agrees with her. Unfortunately it still feels like it is a book having a conversation amongst the left around violence, spontaneity, and a diversity of tactics.
Therefore I would recommend it to anyone who sees themselves within a trajectory of seeking racial justice, wants to understand why the media and those in power only seem to pay attention when something in broken or burnt, or the circuits of the economy are prevented from flowing at top speed.