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Finished Part 3. Being able to understand The Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall in its totality after reading all of Capital thus far feels like a real benchmark in how far my understanding of capitalism and diamat has come.
— Jan 05, 2026 06:02PM
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Finished Part 3 Ch. 1. -- For a book so unfinished, Marx still manages to clearly communicate his analyses in a clear way. I don't actually know what caused Vol. 2 to be such a cryptic meandering slog, because Vol 3 kinda bangs
— Dec 29, 2025 04:03PM
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Finished part II (and chapter 11 +12). Took two pages of notes. Part 3 is the Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall 😋
— Nov 29, 2025 04:47PM
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Chapter 10 finished. Volume 3 so far is much better than Volume 2.
— Nov 29, 2025 04:07AM
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Part 2 Chapter 1 finished.
This chapter actually helped fully make sense of how the organic composition of capital works in the marketplace. It is not just that increasing constant capital reduces labour to exploit and the rate of surplus value, but it necessarily means that the value of any commodity made by a huge automated firm is going to have less value gratis of the fact it has less labourers.
— Oct 28, 2025 03:48PM
This chapter actually helped fully make sense of how the organic composition of capital works in the marketplace. It is not just that increasing constant capital reduces labour to exploit and the rate of surplus value, but it necessarily means that the value of any commodity made by a huge automated firm is going to have less value gratis of the fact it has less labourers.
