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The Grundrisse is a frustrating text, being the collation of jottings that it is. But if anything it shows the centrality of the analysis of value and labour to Marx's political project, as well as his hegelianism. I will have to return to it (and probably read the whole thing) after Capital. The difference in maturity of thought between Grundrisse and Capital is evident, but it reveals some of his thought process

"The production of the relation of the reproduction of historical relation of production relates and produces precisely this relation of production to production which it reproduces as such in the form of a relation of production relating itself to itself as a reproductive relation of production. Historically speaking."

- Karl in the Grundrisse, probably

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