Notes on the first two volumes of Marx’s CAPITAL (Das Kapital)

A statue of Marx and Engels (who edited Capital) in Berlin.

A note on these notes:

These are not formal, proofread, finalized statements regarding political economy. They are not a formalized treatise, essay, polemic, or theoretical work representing either my own opinions or the objective facts of the science of political economy as it is studied through the scientific ideology of the proletariat and the cause of its liberation, Marxism(-Leninism-Maoism). What they are and represent is the record of my own process of edification through a detailed study of the first two volumes of Capital, the essential text on that science. They represent little more than my own personal thought process while reading Capital, without much regard to how those thoughts were later made stronger and more correct by application and further study, and are not necessarily representative of a perfectly objectively correct reading of the text. I cannot claim to present a perfectly correct and complete understanding of this science. These notes represent the fumblings of a student. However, I think they can still be helpful in wrapping one’s head around it, and they certainly have been so to me. It is always useful in study, in the refining of knowledge, first perceptual and then rational, through struggle, to have another comrade’s mind to struggle with. Reading somebody else’s notes, incomplete, static, and imperfect as they are, is usually not as helpful as conversing with another comrade in the flesh on matters of theory and practice- but it is helpful to me, and perhaps will be so to the reader. Repetitiveness and redundancy is to be expected herein. In places there are stupid interjections I made because they were funny to me for whatever reason as I wrote- these are generally left in. Other problems include typos, such as mistakenly saying “qualitative” where I meant “quantitative” or vice versa- I have tried to fix these everywhere I’ve found one, but if a reader sees something they think is in error they are invited to alert me. Critiques and pointings out of errors are welcome.

Also, as the notes are in the form of a word doc, please use this link, which redirects to said file on Google drive, to access them.