[lbo-talk] happy 191st

Michael McIntyre morbidsymptoms at gmail.com
Tue May 5 19:41:08 PDT 2009


I've found it useful in classes and reading groups to start with chapter nine or ten, read a couple of chapters, then head back to the beginning. Having a sense of where this is going to end up helps.

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Mike Beggs <mikejbeggs at gmail.com> wrote:


> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:11 AM, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I read all three volumes in a working seminar run by Jim O'Connor in grad
> > school (just blew my mind (even with a lot of prep via repeated trips
> > through Tucker's Reader, Ollman's Alienation, Smith's Uneven Development
> and
> > Sayers' Violence of Abstraction by that point) and have assigned v.1 in a
> > seminar requested by my grad students at MSU, so it's great to get a
> > slightly different presentation... most particularly because,
> > embarrassingly, I've only ever scanned Limits to Capital.
>
> Limits to Capital is great, still my favourite Harvey book, although
> his stuff on 19th century Paris is maybe more fun. I always recommend
> it to people when I hear they're going to embark on a reading of
> Capital, to read first or even instead, because it's a better way to
> get an overview of the whole, restructured in a more rational way, and
> with open discussion of the problems. Especially due to the 'chapter 3
> problem' - I reckon it's better to not read Capital at all than to
> only read the first few chapters of Vol 1, because you'll come away
> with a distorted view of what it's all about.
>
> Mike Beggs
>
> PS.... you were going to send me that course outline on your music
> course...
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