Attention conservation notice: Over 14,000 words about an archaic monograph on political economy. Either you already care about it, in which case this adds nothing original, or you don't, in which it's vanishingly unlikely to spark an interest. Contains an extra 1920 words of quotations, a fair bit of linear algebra, and claims of being able to say what one of the great thinkers of western civilization meant better than he could. Finally, while I come from the sort of family where a great-uncle's middle name was, in fact, "Karl Marx", I am a mere squishy social democrat with liberal tendencies and a weakness for markets as tools for coordination and feedback, so I am at once too close for objectivity and too remote for involvement. Finally, I am, of course, neither an economist nor a historian of 19th century thought nor an expert on Marxism.
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