Read this with a Reading group this summer. Marx's own crash course to his economic arguments and theory of surplus-value made in Capital Vol.1. Seems like a good starting point to discuss Marx's ideas of how Capitalism work and the economic arguments to how workers are robbed of their worth when they sell their time to a boss.

Best read with a marxist or someone whose read Capital or one of the countless works trying to summarize Marx's economic works. This book alone is still hard to grasp the concepts without discussion or familiarity with reading theory or economic texts, though it feels like a good effort for an amateur economist like Marx to distill his ideas down for your average worker.

If you want a plain and simple introduction to these ideas, read The Housing Monster or Abolish Restaurants by Prole.info, after that this is probably the best introductory text to Marx's economic ideas directly from Marx himself.

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