From: glevy@PRATT.EDU
Date: Wed Jun 20 2007 - 10:15:09 EDT
I do not have the copy of Capital with me. Therefore, I am relying on my memory. I think it is in the preface to the first German edition. If not there, then, it is in the afterword to the second German edition. -------------------------------------- Hi Dogan: I also don't have a copy of _Capital_ with me, but I can say categorically that Marx _NEVER_ recommended IN _Capital_ skipping the first chapter. Indeed, I think he makes precisely the _OPPOSITE_ point in his "Preface to the French Edition" of Volume One in his remarks about how a "beginning is difficult in all sciences". In solidarity, Jerry ---------------------------------------- Marx suggests skiping the first chapter, too, if it is difficult to understand. But he does not say we can put it aside. I think it is the key chapter to understand Capital.
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