[lbo-talk] Reading Capital

[Tom Walker]

Why read Capital when you can read a summary of Karl Marx's main ideas 
(all wrong) in Economics for Dummies in a little over a minute? By the 
way the "all wrong" in the previous sentence refers both to the author's 
claim that Marx's ideas were all wrong and the fact that the summary of 
what were "Marx's main ideas" is all wrong.

The Sandwichman

Yoshie wrote,

 >If an average male American worker and an average female American

 >worker devoted all their reading time to reading nothing but Capital

 >-- a tough regimen! -- it would take the male worker about 17 weeks

 >and the female worker 12 weeks to finish reading the three volumes of

 >it.