Status Updates From Grundrisse: Foundations of ...

Finished book 4. The final section stretching from book 4 to 5, on the topic of pre-capitalist modes of production reminded me alot of Engels book "the origin of the family, private property and the state." Whislt i was reading some bits of that book popped into my head. Overall, quite a long section.

I lied.

Finished off Notebook 3, will start Notebook 4 tomorrow.

It’s enlightening but I’ll be damned if it ain’t a slog

Gotta watch more David Harvey's lectures.

Started the book on January 5th, and only began tracking it today. So far, the book has been very informative, coming from Volume 1 of Capital it has provided more insight into the process and development Marx went through to write peak. So far I have enjoyed reading the chapter on money but found it quite boring, however starting the chapters on Capital it has been nothing but banger after banger.

read intro, will pick up in the future

All the people who said this is entertaining are fucking lying lmao

Very insightful critiques of Rossi and Malthus... But so boring

"Just as in theory the concept of value precedes that of capital, but requires for its pure development a mode of production founded on capital, so the same thing takes place in practice.

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This determination of value, then, presupposes a given historic stage of the mode of social production and is itself something given with that mode, hence a historic relation."