Hey Zig Forums I need to do some reading on "political economy" but I'm not sure where a good place to start would be...

hey Zig Forums I need to do some reading on "political economy" but I'm not sure where a good place to start would be, do you have any ideas?
I asked some other academics at my University but they're all fucking useless (and most of the ones I'm friendly with are I.T faculty anyway because I'm a loser and not cool enough for the arts people), so thought I'd have better luck asking here.

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marxists.catbull.com/archive/marx/works/sw/index.htm
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rationalrevolution.net/articles/capitalism_wages.htm
rationalrevolution.net/articles/capitalism_culture.htm
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MARX'S 1844 MANUSCRIPTS/ WAGE LABOR AND CAPITAL / GRUNDRISSE / DAS KAPITAL
marxists.catbull.com/archive/marx/works/sw/index.htm
Also Locke's Second Treatise on Civil Government and Smith's Wealth of Nations are obvious

Dankeschön, user
very helpful

You're welcome and also before I even read Marx I read this which had good scholarship. Start here.
rationalrevolution.net/articles/capitalism_economy.htm
rationalrevolution.net/articles/capitalism_property.htm
rationalrevolution.net/articles/capitalism_wages.htm
rationalrevolution.net/articles/capitalism_culture.htm
rationalrevolution.net/articles/capitalism_evolution.htm

Contains relevant portions of Locke, Smith, and discusses Marx

By political economy are you talking about Marxist political economy, classical, bourgeois neoclassical economics?

Some people start directly with Marx, which is what I did, but I did it too early, when I was finishing high school. I read Capital because I was expecting this awesome subversive revolutionary book and what I good was a long ass boring economy textbook (it was what it seemed to me).
After that I started reading more modern authors and slowly more and more stuff started making a whole lot of sense, so in the next year or two I'm gonna read capital again.

I can always recommend Business as usual by Paul Mattick (jr): libcom.org/library/business-usual-economic-crisis-failure-capitalism-paul-mattick-jr

Another good one, but probably less useful if you haven't read any Marx beforehand is Michael Heinrich Critique of Political Economy, but this comes from the "new reading of Marx" which is a German branch of doing Marx. They have some fishy ideas explaining some of Marx's points.
Next is Reading Capital by Balibar, Althusser and some other French guys.
But if you would like something more general, Chomsky's Profit Before People is also one that opens the eyes of someone who's never thought about the society and how political power+economy work in our world.
Then you have David Harvey's Short History of Neoliberalism as well.
Also the Communist manifesto could be useful to get into Marx, but he abandons many things he states in there later on.

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cheers user


Thanks for the explanation user, I'll have a look and see how I go. I *wish* I had started reading this stuff late high school like you, I'm much older than that now but better late then never. It's all stuff that is gonna help my shitty academic writing, so thanks.

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This is how you get people to read 10 pages snd quit

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Marxist and newer stuff (70's onwards was when a lot of the newer stuff was starting to be written, right?)

It's okay user, It's for my postgrad, I can dig through lots of shit (or I'm overestimating myself).

nice macroFair enough though, hence why I included the 5 part series afterward. And I should specify for OP those 3 texts are arduous but fundamental treatises on political economy. Grundrisse is just the "ground" work of Capital.>>2844437

Sure. But just jumping straight into Capital head first is imo not the best way to get started.

You're right. I did start trying to read Capital a few weeks ago and it aint easy

I just saw that Richard Wolff wrote a short book called Understanding Marxism. Don't know it, but he explains things in an excellent way usually.

Well I'll post some pdfs. First is a super brief intro. Second is the best and most accesible book on Marx's economic theory I can think of, Leontiev's Political Economy: A Beginner's Course, a pretty classic book from a soviet economist. Third is one is something I'd also recommend for beginners, Kautsky's Economic Doctrines of Marx.

Attached: The Economic Doctrines of Marx, Karl Kautsky.pdf (5 introducing marxist econ….pdf)

thanks for the pdfs, user

you've all been super helpful, thanks anons

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cheka'd. I actually read Kautsky's work after Wage Labor and Capital but before probing Capital Vol 1. It was very helpful and like training wheels for it.

But remember. Kautsky was mostly a nutwit.

Cheka'd. Also here's a bunch of critiques of neoclassical economics if you're interested.

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This. As a pure regurgitation of Marx's economic doctrines he was OK, as a socialist and leader he was a nutwit. Even Marx said so himself.

Can you even imagine the pain? Truly hell for any Zig Forumser

To add to what other anons have said, for a complete beginner I'd strongly suggest reading Wealth of Nations. I'm an economically challenged retard with ADD, and the volume 1 has been a massive help with understanding basic economics. I've only read Value, Price and Profit and Communist Manifesto by Marx, and parts of Imperialism by Lenin, and boy was I not prepared to tackle Capital when I first tried. I thought beginning from the beginning would be a better way to go, and it has turned out to be a good idea.

If you can read past the old language (which I kinda like), Wealth of Nations really is political economy on training wheels for mouth breathers. There are also tons of videos and summaries of the finer points the book makes.

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absolutely disgusting. OP, just read primary sources.

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Brainlets that cannot even finish Chomsky should stay quiet

Chomsky is a literal CIA agent.

His books on manufacturing consent and on cataloguing the instances of American imperialism and the media's defense of it are good. He might be CIA, and supported Hillary, and has some shitty views in general, but disregarding everything is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. He also has some great material to share with liberals. No philosopher's thought should be taken as doctrine. Use what's useful, disregard the rest.

Edward Herman deserves more credit. Also, Parenti's Inventing Reality is just as good or better as an intro, and was published before Manufacturing Consent.

I think Chomsky is downright dangerous in this regard, due to the amount he misdirects and obfuscates on this topic.

Chomsky didn't actually contribute much to Manufacturing Consent. His name was used in order to sell the book. I'm pretty sure he openly admits to this.

Typical Chompy

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