Reading Capital is a collective endeavour…
We are pleased to invite you to join our online international reading group of the new translation of Karl Marx’s Capital Volume 1.
Marx’s greatest work has never been more relevant, as the essential attempt to come to grips with the forces transforming our world. Paul Reitter and Paul North’s new edition is a lucid presentation of the classic text, which we hope to make accessible to a whole new generation.
Perhaps you are a Capital veteran eager to explore the new translation, or a complete newcomer wishing to explore Marx’s seminal work in a supportive environment. The reading group is free, friendly and collaborative.
We will meet regularly on Saturdays at 5pm GMT (12pm EST), for around 1 hour and 30 mins, with occasional breaks throughout the coming months. Readers will be added to a WhatsApp group with a timetable of meeting dates.
So - join us at 5pm GMT on Saturday the 1st February, where we will discuss the Editor’s Introduction, and the shape of the course of reading and discussion. Sign up and get all of the relevant information.
Our reading group is not designed to be an academic exercise, but as a guide for action. Over on Conter, Michael Doyle lays out why reading Capital is fundamentally a collective experience, and one which can arm us with an analysis of a system in crisis:
As 2025 approaches, socialists will have to remain optimistic and hopeful that our endeavours can improve the world. We can feel completely alone, bewildered, and depressed as capitalism generates multiple social crises which are naturalised by our ruling class. Or, we can feel that the mounting challenge from the far-right is somehow insurmountable. A reading group not only brings like-minded people together and engenders solidarity, but it also helps us deconstruct capitalist social relations via political education and reading. There is no better work than Capital to do that.