Yeah, but it’s not harmful to read the book lol. I’ve only ever skimmed Das Kapital because I have terrible patience when it comes to reading and Marx is definitely not a light read.
Stuff like Black Shirts and Reds, the Manifesto, even State and Rev are a lot more approachable and you can infer the important points Marx makes from them. The idea that Kapital is the end all of leftist literature is dumb, but it’s still something you can learn a lot from if you read it.
Oh totally, read the book if you have the time and attention. I’m mostly speaking to the occasional leftist you’ll find who places such importance on Marx’s original writings that they think throwing an economics textbook at people is a good strategy for growing the left. It’s simply not accessible to most people, and there’s nothing wrong with that because people have recast the key ideas in much more digestible formats.
The idea that Kapital is the end all of leftist literature is dumb, but it’s still something you can learn a lot from if you read it.
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Did we just have a struggle session with a mutually productive conclusion?
