Capital isn’t even particularly difficult. It’s repetitive to a fault really. He repeats the concept of the Labor Theory of Value until you’re good and damn tired of it, then it becomes a history lesson on working conditions in late 19th century Britain.
It has been said that a recurring issue in works written by philosophers is that they tend to repeat their ideas often. This is to say that philosophers’ writings frequently return to previously-discussed concepts and rephrase them. To use the German, philosophers often employ what is known as Wiederholung, essentially meaning “doing the same thing again”.
Capital isn’t even particularly difficult. It’s repetitive to a fault really. He repeats the concept of the Labor Theory of Value until you’re good and damn tired of it, then it becomes a history lesson on working conditions in late 19th century Britain.
It has been said that a recurring issue in works written by philosophers is that they tend to repeat their ideas often. This is to say that philosophers’ writings frequently return to previously-discussed concepts and rephrase them. To use the German, philosophers often employ what is known as Wiederholung, essentially meaning “doing the same thing again”.