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Class 06 Reading Marx’s Capital Vol I with David Harvey

  » NEIL SMITH: One of the striking things for me always about that chapter was the extraordinarily precise mathematical logic of it. I mean, it comes closest to a mathematical dialectic. And sometimes that ability and that way of working are why Marx gets tagged as in some ways a structuralist » HARVEY: positivist!…

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Class 12 Reading Marx’s Capital Vol I with David Harvey

  » NEIL SMITH: This brings me back to your your point earlier about the last chapters in Capital. There’s the primitive accumulation chapter of course, but I was thinking as much about the chapter on colonies and Wakefield, and the sense you get from Marx’s critique of Wakefield which is that the realities of…

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