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Just finished Chapter 1. Now I understand why everyone recommends to start with Chapter 7 instead.

Any other recommendations for first time readers?

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[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Recommendation is to read it at a steady pace but not as fast as you can. Read a chapter or a large section, then take a break with some related content like a lecture about the same topic. It’s good to cement the same ideas in multiple ways and not get your brain fried by reading a textbook straight through. It took me like 2 years to finish volume 1, and that was a small price to feel grounded for years afterward

Edit: personally I think it should be read sequentially though. Start with chapter 1. While Marx himself admitted the first chapter (the law of value) was not strictly necessary to understand exploitation, it’s still very useful from an expository and theoretical standpoint. And certainly you need that background to understand the more advanced stuff to later extend it to modern finance capitalism.

[–] juice_@hexbear.net 3 points 1 hour ago

The Reading Capital with Comrades podcast is really good, I listened an episode after every two chapters as a review to male sure I got the main concepts.

David Harvey's lectures were really interesting as well, he gets into a lot of detail on each chapter. Rather than using it as a review chapter by chapter, I listened to it to try and get a deeper understanding. I started listening to it about halfway through because I was struggling with Marx's method, like the structure of his logic, and then just listened casually, and didn't finish the series until well after I had finished the volume.