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• Capital Reading Group wrote a new blog post: PART ONE: The Transformation of Surplus-Value into Profit, and of the Rate of Surplus-Value into the Rate of Profit   7 months ago
  

  Key for this section:br /span style=”font-style:italic;”span style=”font-weight:bold;”“An increase in the rate of profit always stems form a relative or absolute increase in the surplus value in relation to its cost of production, i.e. to the total capital advanced, or from a reduction in the difference between the rate of profit and the rate of surplus [...]

• Capital Reading Group wrote a new blog post: Mandel’s Intro to Volume Three   7 months, 1 week ago
  

  Let me begin with a summary of Mandel’s introduction. Mandel is a master at synthesizing and clarifying arguments, if only pointing to the existing literature and adding his own argument to the debates (after this reading is completed we should move onto his two volume work in order to better understand his own ‘reading’ of [...]

• Capital Reading Group wrote a new blog post: Real and Formal, again   7 months, 3 weeks ago
  

  Randomly found this old NLR article from Ben Fine:br /br /span style=”font-style: italic;”New Left Review/span I/109, May-June 1978br /br /Ben Finebr /”On the Origins of Capitalist Development Remarks”br /br /Eventually he reaches a discussion of relative and absolute surplus-value in the history of capital and makes a claim that takes some fucking guts:br /blockquoteIn short, [...]

• Capital Reading Group wrote a new blog post: Vol II, Part Three via Secondary Literature   8 months ago
  

  a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_bRid8sOBark/SmVfA8q2DvI/AAAAAAAAAAU/f4q5TXcIUu4/s1600-h/reproduction.jpg”img style=”float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 386px; height: 400px;” src=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_bRid8sOBark/SmVfA8q2DvI/AAAAAAAAAAU/f4q5TXcIUu4/s400/reproduction.jpg” border=”0″ alt=””id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360795401344913138″ //abr /br /Since I had a hard time trying to tease out the main points from these last two sections, I’ve decided to turn to secondary literature in order to assist in contextualizing or highlighting what is [...]

• Capital Reading Group wrote a new blog post: A brief note during the interlude   8 months, 1 week ago
  

  I’m not sure when we’ll start Volume III, but we’re definitely going to get there. In the meantime, I thought I’d take some time to review some notes and ideas that have forced me to revisit Volume I.br /br /The basic concern is the distinction between Formal and Real Subsumption. This can be broken down [...]

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