Starting to dig through the new Capital translation and I thought Paul North’s editor’s introduction was very good - would work well for a course on the text
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It’s still no cakewalk, but the famously difficult opening chapter (“The Commodity”) seems a lot more straightforward in this translation.
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Would imagine this could lead to fewer misreadings of the commodity fetishism section - but on the other hand, the leading one (“people are obsessed with commodities, maaan”) seems to stem from people not reading the text at all.
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Forgot that the hypothetical bible seller in Chapter 3 uses his money to buy schnapps
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