Marx's Capital - "Best" edition?

[Riklet]

For me, Penguin version .mobi ebook version downloaded for free online with Harvey's accompanying guide worked well. More portable. You not keen on kindle?

To be fair, Capital is the kind of book it's quite satisfying to physically open over half way and think "yeah I am doing a good job here". You don't get that on 53% with an ebook

 

[love detective]

plus on the physical ones you eventually end up with pretty much every word across the 2,500 pages underlined - then start putting square brackets round the most important underlined stuff till everything is also in square brackets so start putting stars next to the most important of the bracketed stuff, then double stars, triple stars etc.. - till it ends up looking like one of those plates of food on rate my plate and the only stuff you can actually read is the handful of sentences that for some reason didn’t get underlined in the first place

 

[chilango]

I've got some old versions of Vol 1 & Vol3 (most people skip vol2 anyway thinking it's not that important - it's dry as fuck in terms of writing style and literary flourishes compared to the other 2 but still pretty solid/important stuff) also a Marx/Engels selected correspondence that I don't need - they are very heavy though so no idea what the postage would be on them

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These are the ones that I actually use - although not looked at them for years

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They're lovely.

 

[chilango]

For me, Penguin version .mobi ebook version downloaded for free online with Harvey's accompanying guide worked well. More portable. You not keen on kindle?

To be fair, Capital is the kind of book it's quite satisfying to physically open over half way and think "yeah I am doing a good job here". You don't get that on 53% with an ebook

I think I have it on Kindle. At least I did. What I've found myself wanting/needing to do is look up certain key words/concepts and then pull a reference/citation from it. And to have it open on a passage and read it alinfsalo something else talking about the same thing ...

 

[danny la rouge]

plus on the physical ones you eventually end up with pretty much every word across the 2,500 pages underlined - then start putting square brackets round the most important underlined stuff till everything is also in square brackets so start putting stars next to the most important of the bracketed stuff, then double stars, triple stars etc.. - till it ends up looking like one of those plates of food on rate my plate and the only stuff you can actually read is the handful of sentences that for some reason didn’t get underlined in the first place

 

[CNT36]

I've got some old versions of Vol 1 & Vol3 (most people skip vol2 anyway thinking it's not that important - it's dry as fuck in terms of writing style and literary flourishes compared to the other 2 but still pretty solid/important stuff) also a Marx/Engels selected correspondence that I don't need - they are very heavy though so no idea what the postage would be on them

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These are the ones that I actually use - although not looked at them for years

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And I thought my copies looked fucked.

 

[ska invita]

Penguin take the living piss with £19 a paperback volume...the books are in the public domain ffs.
Maybe theyre trying to teach a lesson in capitalism right there are the till.

I think I read somewhere that its the rip off Penguin Classics series (it runs long and deep) that really drives the profits for them.

Do they own some kind of special translation rights to it?

I'm surprised there aren't more new editions of it

 

[ska invita]

Carlos Marx...has got a great ring to it

 

[mojo pixy]

Yo no soy dinero,
Yo no soy dinero, soy capital,
Soy capital, soy capital!

 

[chilango]

Taken delivery of an L&W hardback of Volume One. Am v happy. Whilst browsing copies of the Grundisse and writings on sociology and social philosophy slipped into my basket I then found a Penguin edition of the Communist Manifesto in the Charity Shop for a couple of quid. I have two copies already (and a Welsh version somewhere I hope) but this one has bonus material

Will buy Vol 2 next month
...and Vol 3 the month after. Fingers crossed if I can find matching copies.

 

[Idris2002]

Taken delivery of an L&W hardback of Volume One. Am v happy. Whilst browsing copies of the Grundisse and writings on sociology and social philosophy slipped into my basket I then found a Penguin edition of the Communist Manifesto in the Charity Shop for a couple of quid. I have two copies already (and a Welsh version somewhere I hope) but this one has bonus material

Will buy Vol 2 next month
...and Vol 3 the month after. Fingers crossed if I can find matching copies.

Now you just have to read them!

 

[butchersapron]

Taken delivery of an L&W hardback of Volume One. Am v happy. Whilst browsing copies of the Grundisse and writings on sociology and social philosophy slipped into my basket I then found a Penguin edition of the Communist Manifesto in the Charity Shop for a couple of quid. I have two copies already (and a Welsh version somewhere I hope) but this one has bonus material

Will buy Vol 2 next month
...and Vol 3 the month after. Fingers crossed if I can find matching copies.

As i'm sure i've said before - the L&W edition doesn't have the absolutely crucial originally unpublished 6th chapter. Penguin editions from what mid 70s (?) onward did.

 

[chilango]

As i'm sure i've said before - the L&W edition doesn't have the absolutely crucial originally unpublished 6th chapter. Penguin editions from what mid 70s (?) onward did.

Thanks

 

[chilango]

Now you just have to read them!

You'll be saying that about all the other books on my shelves next!

 

[Lurdan]

Surely the unpublished 6th chapter is in volume 34.

 

[Gerry1time]

The one with the missing chapter at the end where he goes "Lol Jokz capitalizms grate!!!!1!!1!11" Apparently the publisher thought it didn't flow with the rest of the narrative.

 

[chilango]

All present and correct now