Is there going to be a Capital reading group for 2025 like there was for 2024?
I had seen some movement to hopefully do it again but haven't seen anything on when or if it will happen. Wanting to know if I should just start reading on my own or hold out and wait for the reading group, which would be my preference.
using the first new English translation in fifty years I hope!
I have been trying to find firm consensus on if it's missing anything critical or has made any weird translations, and have been unable to find anything, so for now it's Fowkes for me.
haven't listened to this yet myself, but this podcast might help to evaluate Reitter as a translator:
Paul Reitter, a Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Ohio State University, discusses his recent translation of Volume 1 of Karl Marx’s Capital with host David Staley. Reitter discusses the nuances and challenges of translating Marx’s work, the intricacies of Marx’s theories on value and capitalism, and how Reitter’s translation aims to preserve Marx’s original meaning and literary style. Staley and Reitter also cover the broader implications and significance of translation studies, the historical undervaluation of translation in academia, and Reitter’s future projects on translating the remaining volumes of Capital.
https://podcast.osu.edu/voices-of-excellence/paul-reitter-a-capital-idea/
oh and he also went on American Prestige:
E179 - Marx's Capital Re-Translated w/ Paul North and Paul Reitter
If it starts, I want to be a part of it!
Same! Time to level up my Marxism points
I found a uni course to do this year with Capital as the material so I'd be in.
I was in the previous group at the start, but other course work reading and work steamrolled over me and I could not keep up. But this year I've scheduled it in.
I see you replied in @Vampire@hexbear.net’s thread in the theory comm. Not sure if they have a plan but it seems like it’s up for grabs at the moment.
Call it volume 1-itis, but three volumes in a year was too fast for my attention span and schedule.
I’m always down to reread volume 1. Always seems to reveal something new. In the past week I’ve been studying the first chapter in light of Rubin’s essays on it, so I would be eager to join the discussion if a new group starts
Yep, threw my hat in the pile because I want it to happen for my own selfish reasons, and figured I shouldn't just expect others to do it for me if I wasn't going to pitch my own name into the hat. I haven't read it before, so I'd really like to read it alongside comrades who can help my understanding along, and don't want to just start up a reading group if there are already plans in place and step on people's toes.
Call it volume 1-itis, but three volumes in a year was too fast for my attention span and schedule.
This was a tricky choice when I started it.... do we:
Each of them have trade-offs, and they will fit different people better. But I think the choice I made is good: it's a human pace, neither fast nor slow, and gets a lot of ground covered. If it lasted too long, more people would drop off in the middle.
For sure. Not criticizing at all, I’m glad that people stuck with it.
If hexbear had a larger user base, we might be able to have three concurrent groups, one for each volume. But yea, we don’t have enough people for that lol.
i think that hungryrye is doing a capital reading group on fable if this falls through
Huh, TIL! Thanks for posting.
Yes, goal is to finish chapter 3 by the end of the year.
Revolution by 2034
No. You mean Volume 3?