Gijs Koorevaar’s Reviews > Het Kapitaal. Kritiek van de politieke economie, Deel 1: Het productieproces van het kapitaal > Status Update

I'm completely lost in the sauce of the value-form and it's relation to (abstract) labour and class struggle, reading autonomist accounts versus Harvey versus random critical sociology papers, and the more I read the more confused I become. Is value constituted in labour or 'retroactively' in exchange? And to what extent or in what sense are value and abstract labour historically determined by capital? Marx knows

I promise I'm going to finish it this time. I'm going to read it over summer break which isn't for another few weeks for me, but I couldn't help myself and read the forewords today. The translation seems nice, much better than the shitty public domain edition I read half of years ago. Marx is actually a great writer. I'm excited to dive in!