[lbo-talk] profits

[Eric Beck]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Explicitly not tooting my own horn but did others here find the first three
> chapters difficult?  Maybe it was who was teaching it (I'll always be
> indebted to Richie Schuldenfrei and Braulio Munoz), or maybe it was how I
> was raised (anti-reductionist spatial-thinking via dad's physics and mom's
> anthropology), but I remember that first reading as absolutely thrilling

My approach to Capital was the opposite of yours: I read it without a
teacher and with a literature background, but my reaction to the first
three chapters was the same: I was absolutely thrilled, on an
emotional level. Seriously, I remember feeling lightheaded. It hit me
like only a few books have. It felt like all the mysteries were
unlocked for a little while. Of course having reread it, I know that
it *is* difficult and dense, and I'm sure I understand at best ten
percent of it, but I found it far from opaque.