i read Marx Dead And Alive: Reading Capital In Precarious Times much earlier than i meant to (i’m already reading through three other books (no none of the rest is Capital or about it)) and i liked it

you can tell the author actually reads, like, fiction; they write like a writer

you do not need to have read Capital to be able to follow or appreciate the book

i do not understand why the author thinks Marxism was “forced” on agrarian, pre-capitalist China, while at the same time he very approvingly cites and discusses Lenin, who, famously, took power in pre-capitalist Russia,, but ok, whatever