Finally finished the third volume of Capital. Not going to lie, it was a challenge and quite a journey, but well worth it. Rip to the many, many highlighters that gave their lives for this endeavor.

marx-hi AMA!

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[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'd say that they teach you how to read them in terms of content. Vol 1 prepares you for Vol 2 and so on. I don't have an economics background at all, but I do have a background in literary theory, and it is helpful to have personal strategies for parsing dense texts. Personally I highlight and annotate to force myself to slow down and parse the text and think about what the key points being made are