The only part of Capital to be published in Marx’s lifetime was volume one. It first came into being in Hamburg in 1867. Throughout the book Marx confidently asserts that ‘more of this will appear in volume two’, ‘this argument will continue in volume three’ and so on. But those later volumes were not finalisedContinue reading “Visions of Marx….endlessly”
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Ask The Man Who Cuts the Golden Silk
The books are piling up as the time-sands of the working days trickle away through a giant hourglass. The pressure of the day job is easing. Only a day or two to go. I’ve been preparing for this over a couple of weeks now. Long evenings and weekends engrossed in volume one of Capital, LudovicoContinue reading “Ask The Man Who Cuts the Golden Silk”
Buying Books, Strikes, Anti-War
The train comes up from the tunnel under the Thames. The Dartford Bridge, a couple of car carrier ships at Purfleet. A Norman church in the distance. An untidy pile of colour clashing blue and green containers. Abandoned here in the Thames estuary, last years trinkets, food that cannot be sold, shoes that the shoelessContinue reading “Buying Books, Strikes, Anti-War”
Commodity Fetishism 