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DAS KAPITAL vI READING GROUP
DAS KAPITAL vI READING GROUP - Every other Monday, 5pm-6pm. FAB5.49 (English common room/Student hub). Wine.
Contact: Kishan.Katira@warwick.ac.uk
Have you read Das Kapital yet? If you write about Marxism, why not go to the source? Do not let others read it for you. As the haiku master Bash艒 Matsuo says, 鈥渢o learn about pine trees, go to the pine tree; to learn of the bamboo, study bamboo鈥�. Reading never more than 25 pages a week, we will meet once a fortnight during term time, and together get through Das Kapital Volume I. The text is free:
Term 3 (Year 2025-26)
- Week 2 – Prefaces, and Chapter 1: 鈥楥ommodities鈥�.
- Week 4 – Chapter 2: 鈥楨xchange鈥�, and Chapter 3: 鈥楳oney, Or the Circulation of Commodities鈥�.
- Week 6 – Chapter 4: 鈥楾he General Formula for Capital鈥�, Chapter 5: 鈥楥ontradictions in the General Formula of Capital鈥�, and Chapter 6: 鈥楾he Buying and Selling of Labour-Power鈥�.
- Week 8 – Chapter 7: 鈥楾he Labour-Process and the Process of Producing Surplus-Value鈥�, Chapter 8: 鈥楥onstant Capital and Variable Capital鈥�, and Chapter 9: 鈥楾he Rate of Surplus-Value鈥�.
- Week 10 – Chapter 10: 鈥楾he Working Day鈥�, Sections 1-5.