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Volume One of Marx's Capital is readable and understandable. I think because Marx finished this volume himself before he died. Volume two and three are a cobbling together of Marx's writings by Engels posthumously and it shows. Volume one is long and detailed but makes a strong argument based on the labor theory of value and profits being exploited by capitalists as baked into the system. The baroque pathologies of this form of exploitation drive history in Marx's view by driving the political struggle of working people. If I had read this in 1985 I would have said yeah but we are beyond this stuff in the late twentieth century. Reading it in 2021 I rather think it is salient and extremely relevant. Marx is definitely in season in the early 21st century.