A Companion to Marx's Capital

Harvey highlights some important points in Capital Vol. 1, such as time, temporality and control, which he ties to Foucault, who expanded on these ideas. He also attempts to dispel some myths or misunderstandings about Marx's work, such as his stance on technology and heavy industry, in which he is often portrayed as someone heavily in favor of industry, but Harvey manages to point out Marx's (subtle, but still present) scepticism, based on which Harvey posses a question for the reader if industry is inherently capitalist and how future socialist revolutions should approach it. Despite these brilliant remarx, most of the book is “Here's what Marx said here and here” without much elaboration, which needlessly prolongs the book. A better companion to Vol. 1 is, in my opinion, Michael Heinrich's An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital, though they both have something to them, Heinrich's work is more in line with Marxology, while Harvey tries to pinpoint and critique Marx's shortcomings at times.