It would take six months or a year and at the end we just start over agin, so people can jump in at any point.
What do you think? This would be in addition to once-off bookclubs.
One thing I’m unsure of is do we do Volumes 1-3, or repeat 1? Or 1-4?
It would take six months or a year and at the end we just start over agin, so people can jump in at any point.
What do you think? This would be in addition to once-off bookclubs.
One thing I’m unsure of is do we do Volumes 1-3, or repeat 1? Or 1-4?
Imo repeating vol1 would be the best bet bc vol2 and vol3 are note-form Marx in places, basically un-edited and written before the publication of vol1.
Vol1 is also conveniently broken up into 10ish page chunks making for a much better book club experience.
We could also pick an abridged edition and do that at the b beginning of the year
Kapital is a complete work, any abridgement ruins it
(In less jovial terms; imho the work falls apart if it isn’t read at least once from start to finish becausee Marx relies throughout on terms, concepts, ideas, he developed earlier on; and I don’t trust abridgers to get all of those (esspecially the important footnotes like ch15 fn4))
I get it, but someone getting through all of abridged is still better than someone getting through one chapter of the source text.
If we have to pick one I recommend Borchardt’s “The People’s Marx” because each chapter directly cites where it’s abridged from in the source text which means you can use it as a sort of teaser or cliffnotes.
Also a good chance for people to discuss the differences between the abridged text and the original text.
Julian’s focus was to provide an overview of the source that allowed workers to quickly cross reference with the source which I think for an ongoing reading group would be helpful, as someone who comes in late and read discussions about the text in context of a book that’s 300 pages rather than 3000