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Para Entender O Capital: Livro I (2009)

by David Harvey(Favorite Author)

4.17 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

8575593226 (ISBN13: 9788575593226)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Boitempo

review 1: Very useful book to help demystify some of the stuff in Capital Volume 1. I disagree with quite a bit of what he says when he goes beyond Capital (particularly the focus on neoliberalism) but he connects it to Marx's work and seeing someone explicitly draw from it and developing it is useful. Most helpful early on - at parts it's limited to reiterating what Marx has said; understandable because the first couple of parts are definitely the toughest so it's not too big a deal. I do think he sometimes misses chances to argue a bit further. The main example is the labour theory of value - Marx didn't feel the need to justify it because it was commonly accepted at the time and Harvey only spends about a page (I think) doing so. Given that it's such an important part of what fol... morelows, it would have been nice to have a bit more time spent on it.Overall though, very handy guide and I recommend it as a guide to your own understanding and interpretation. (Couple of things: David Harvey recommends the Penguin edition, which is probably the best available, if you're planning on following along, and it's the one he quotes from with page numbers. However, the Penguin version comes with an appendix which is another chapter Marx wrote but didn't publish yet Harvey doesn't mention it at all. It's no big deal, but it would have been nice just to say "I'm not covering the appendix" somewhere)
review 2: David Harvey's {Companion} is a great way to read Marx's {Capital} Vol. 1. The length of {Capital} may be intimidating, but if a reader travels book by book--Harvey to Marx, Harvey to Marx, ...--an appreciation of Marx's great critique will result. Harvey moves the reader along, pointing out complexities of interpretation but not bogging down when he differs from other writers. Harvey's goal is to read Marx with you, not to make a case for a perspective. Pick up Harvey's {Companion} with the Vintage edition of {Capital} Vol. 1. Post 2007: time to understand the world, time to change the world. Time is now, begin here. less

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