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- English Books
- Others 356 Pages
- ISBN-10: 1844673588
- ISBN-13: 9781844673582
- Publisher: Verso Books
- Pub date: Jan 01, 2010
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback
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A fantastic book.
I read it together with Volume 1 of the Capital, as I felt I needed some help with Marx. Harvey's book is fantastic for various reasons. One can really feel it is a book written by a professor to his students, very pedagogic. Harvey is very fair, being clear distinguishing betwee ... (continue)
A fantastic book.
I read it together with Volume 1 of the Capital, as I felt I needed some help with Marx. Harvey's book is fantastic for various reasons. One can really feel it is a book written by a professor to his students, very pedagogic. Harvey is very fair, being clear distinguishing between his own opinion, which other Marxists may disagree with, and objective statements, and also highlighting Marx's lacks and mistakes. Harvey connects all the time the critiques and the analysis of the Capital to history, spanning from the beginning of the 20th century to the 2008 crisis: extremely interesting. The one-to-one correspondence between the chapters in Volume 1 and in this book makes it very easy to follow the discourse.
Sometimes reading the Capital has been very tough. However, at the end of each of chapter I read Harvey's companion, which has always been a breeze of fresh air sweeping away all the doubts accumulated reading Marx.
I dare to say that this book might probably be appreciated even without reading the Capital itself: it would not be wasted time for sure, even though the two books should be both read, as the title suggests.
As I believe that any leftist discourse cannot prescind from references to Marx's work, this is a fantastic book that helps to better understand the Capital and its illuminating insights, thus sweeping away reactionary comments such as "what Marx wrote 150 years ago does not apply today".
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