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socialism, utopian and scientific by engels is short and introductory, the first third mostly deals with the accumulation of capital that socialists seek to undermine :cool-bean:

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oh also bullshit jobs or debt: the first 5000 years are more popscience written by anarchist david graeber, quite nice reads and more digestible to normies

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“Wage Labor and Capital” by Marx. It’s short, but covers the major points.

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You could check out some of Marx’ essays, those are much more accessible than just picking up capital.

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That’s a pretty good idea for a book, someone should totally write that.

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Oh, I thought this post was the funniest bit I had seen for some time, haha.

Marx’s Wage Labour and Capital might be what you’re looking for.

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If only. This is me thinking about what I’d look like if that book existed.

:sicko-wistful:

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Hadas Thier wrote a book called A People’s Guide to Capitalism that came recommended by Michael Roberts (thenextrecession guy) and she was recently interviewed by Grace Blakely on her podcast.

I grabbed a copy. I’m only 4 or 5 chapters out of 10 or so, but I think it’s a great book. It’s basically a very compressed version of Capital with modern language and examples etc.

I’d absolutely recommend.

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