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Class 01 - Introduction

Reading Marx's Capital Volume 2 (audio)

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Is There a Will to Read Marks?

"It has been a fantastic experience, an i didn't imagine that it would have had the impact that i and it tells me something that actually there's a thirst for knowing about what it was that marks had to say," he says. He doesn't er do an empirical study of the history of capitalism, historical study. What he does in effect is to take all the writings of all the political economists from the seventeenth century onwards and make the assumption they struggled with figuring out how on earth this capitalist world was working. And even when they were being dishonest, they told you something. It really did.

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