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Hi everyone. If you were unable to attend last week's inaugural get-together, you can still come to tomorrow's meeting at 6:30! Same location (the Snug at Doyle's). We will be discussing the book's introduction and the general method of analysis to be used on the body of the text. This is still a great time for anyone unfamiliar with this book to hop in without having missed anything substantive. Come join a curious and good-looking group of people on an exegetical journey through an Ozymandian work of economic and philosophical literature!

Accidentally posted to orher sub as well. Hi everyone! I just locked in the Snug at Doyle’s for Tuesday, September 29 at 6pm for the inaugural meeting of the Capital / Das Kapital reading group. This will likely be the regular weekly meeting time. I will also be DM-ing all those who expressed interest on the original post with this information. I encourage those interested to find a Penguin edition / Ben Fowkes translation of the book. See you all there!

Hi everyone. This post was inspired by a community member who posted a little over a year ago about a Finnegan's Wake reading group that he wanted to put together.

Since the beginning of the year, I've been preparing myself to read Karl Marx's Capital / Das Kapital - I started out with a few of some of the classic Enlightenment thinkers such as Descartes, Locke, and Hume, complemented by the bedrock texts on political economy - Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, David Ricardo's On The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, and most recently some of Marx's "early", philosophical works (1844 Manuscripts, The German Ideology, Grundrisse), with a light smattering of German Idealism.

Starting/partaking in a group reading of Das Kapital seems like an appropriate (and enjoyable) culmination of my recent efforts, and I wanted to gauge the community's interest in tackling a notoriously conceptually dense and deeply impactful work of philosophical and economic thought. I would probably pick some time during a weekday evening to reserve The Snug at Doyle's (same venue where the above-mentioned FW reading group takes place), where participants could come and collectively pick apart the text one digestible section at a time.

This would probably not begin for another few weeks, so if anyone is interested I would love to hear from you and I recommend picking up a Penguin edition of the book so that everyone is reading from the same translation.

-Alec