After reading Wage Labor and Capital two weeks ago, my study group and I just finished Value, Price, and Profit. It was really good and I felt that it was an easier read than Wage Labor and Capital. That said, for modern audiences, I feel like the first 6 chapters could have been skipped and replaced with a paragraph summarizing Marx’s argument against Weston.
Reading these two texts together while sitting in the breakroom of my job gave me a deep feeling of dread as I listened to the ways in which my coworkers conversationally support our own exploitation and recontextualized how I view the social dynamics of my workplace. I equate that feeling with a fish becoming aware of the water their swimming in. I often get that feeling after finishing a political book, but these two texts really drove that feeling within me and it has prominently stuck with me since.
My study group will be taking a break from reading and will begin focusing on creating slideshows for each book we’ve read for our ML class we’re making. While working on that, I think I’m going to read two books in the meantime. I’m going to pick up where I left off with Settlers, but that text is very long so I might try to also read Roland Beor’s ‘Socialism With Chinese Characteristics: A Concise Guide’.
After reading Wage Labor and Capital two weeks ago, my study group and I just finished Value, Price, and Profit. It was really good and I felt that it was an easier read than Wage Labor and Capital. That said, for modern audiences, I feel like the first 6 chapters could have been skipped and replaced with a paragraph summarizing Marx’s argument against Weston.
Reading these two texts together while sitting in the breakroom of my job gave me a deep feeling of dread as I listened to the ways in which my coworkers conversationally support our own exploitation and recontextualized how I view the social dynamics of my workplace. I equate that feeling with a fish becoming aware of the water their swimming in. I often get that feeling after finishing a political book, but these two texts really drove that feeling within me and it has prominently stuck with me since.
My study group will be taking a break from reading and will begin focusing on creating slideshows for each book we’ve read for our ML class we’re making. While working on that, I think I’m going to read two books in the meantime. I’m going to pick up where I left off with Settlers, but that text is very long so I might try to also read Roland Beor’s ‘Socialism With Chinese Characteristics: A Concise Guide’.