Watch my short introduction to Andy Blunden's new book 'The Capital / Logic Debate' for the @MethexisATX Forbidden Books club. youtu.be/GNJCAfiL5fA

At 1 PM CST on Sunday, October 25th, the Methexis Institute Forbidden Books reading group will discuss Andy Blunden's new book 'The Capital / Logic Debate' (2026). In 'The Capital / Logic Debate', Andy Blunden argues that Karl Marx’s Capital must be understood through a specific, non-orthodox reading of G.W.F. Hegel’s Logic, wherein the core structure of capitalism is grasped not as a set of mechanical laws, but as a developing, self-mediating social totality. He rejects both the structuralist view - which reduces human agency to economic functions - and the traditional Diamat (Dialectical Materialism) view, which applies abstract laws of nature to historical developments. Instead, he demonstrates that the commodity is the objective form of appearance that contains the primary contradiction between use-value and value, and capitalism is a self-moving, totalizing system of social practices, rather than an external structure determining human behavior. Capital becomes a subject that appears to possess its own independent life, dominating the human actors who created it. Because capital is a totalizing system generated by collaborative human activity, it can only be transcended through a counter-totality built on the spirit of solidarity. Please, if you can, read the first chapter '1 The Grundrisse/Logic Debate' (pp. 1-30). As ever, it is not required to read in advance to attend this group. drive.google.com/file/d/1OIz…   To join online, click here at the start of the meeting: meet.google.com/dnf-pysk-wys

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