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Class 01 - Introduction

Reading Marx's Capital (audio)

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The Fetishness of Commodities

The rest of this chapter is very curious for a variety of reasons. The literary style changes from crisp analytic like you've seen here and that goes on for the next one. To what I can only call his kind of a countency style, which is deadly boring. He could have done it much quicker in my view, but it has some very important insights in it. But you're going to find yourself struggling. It's fun actually because you start to say how on earth does this relate to that and what does this really mean? So anyway, chapter one's like that. Chapter two is relatively short and again fairly analytic key concepts are laid out so it's a step further along

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