My Review of the New Capital vol 1. Translation

The last month or two I’ve found myself utterly in the abyss of Karl Marx’s Capital vol 1, and adjacent literature that I thought would be too dull to share (admittedly with the odd suspense and mystery novel thrown in for relief - most recently William Kent Krueger’s Iron Lake, which I 80% liked).

Happily my review of the new translation from Princeton University Press by Paul Reitter, edited by Paul North & Reitter, and with an introduction by Wendy Brown is now up at Open Letters Review, should you want to read it.

Naturally I could have written 5,000 words on the book and so with a constrained review like this I’m concerned about what was left unsaid. Nonetheless, and at minimum, I hope it provides enough for you to decide if you want to pay for and read the monstrosity in this new excellent translation.

We’ll see, I might start sharing more of what I’m reading here this fall and winter, but I have resigned myself to continuing on with a lot of Marx, a lot of Marx biographies, and whatever studies of the SOB I have laying around the apartment - probably as comeuppance for some sins I’ve committed, I don’t know.