Marx's Method of Distinction

Marx is a pioneer in a method which, if you're familiar with psychoanalysis, you would also understand that you start with surface behaviors. In capital, he's going to start with the deep concepts. What are my basic concepts? And he lays these basic concepts out, very simply, very directly. When you first read it, you say, where is all this stuff coming from? Where did he get it from? Why is he doing that? Half the time you have no idea what he's talking about with these concepts. But then bit by bit, as you move on, you start to see how these concepts are illuminating things going on around us. So after a while, you