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Circulation Focus Reveals Different Truths
- David Harvey values Volume Two for its focus on circulation, turnover, and space rather than Volume One's production emphasis.
- He argues Volume Two reveals dynamics like speed-up and spatial compression crucial to understanding capitalism.
Marx’s Pure-Abstraction Method
- Harvey notes Marx abstracts to a ‘pure’ functioning capitalist society, excluding technological change and value shifts.
- This abstraction isolates circulation forms so new problems like realization and flow barriers become visible.
Multiple Windows On Capital
- Viewing capital from a production window yields one set of laws; viewing it from a circulation window yields others.
- Capital’s truth combines both windows, which Volume Three tries to reconcile.