This book, like the first two, is not an easy book to read. I do not know if this book is meant to be required reading in colleges of history and economics, but it should be.

It is hard to imagine anyone else (apart from people like Adam Smith) who have such an immense influence on the decades that succeeded them. It is also hard to find anyone else who would be so misunderstood. I am, at this point of writing, yet to read The Communist Manifesto, and I will. However, this book is not at all a polemical exercise, as it is an exercise in analysis.

Brilliant, and difficult. Yet, for a serious student of history, economics, and politics, Marx is a must study. And, I emphasise - a must study and not just a must read. ( )

Having read the entire Kapital, in three volumes and almost 2500 pages, let me make just one suggestion to those who haven't read it yet: you should seriously consider reading an abridged edition. I wanted to read the entire work because I didn't want to miss something important, but after working my way through thousands of pages of repetitive and antiquated economic theorizing, I admit my misjudgment. Of course, this work probably had a bigger impact on modern history than any other and for that reason alone we should still read it today. But Marx wasn't a very focused writer. Following his thoughts about rent and interest as they meander back and forth, across the same ground he already covered in volumes 1 and 2, is frustrating to say the least. There's simply a lot of superfluous material in Kapital, especially in volumes 2 and 3. A well-edited abridgement, which shouldn't amount to more than 600-700 pages at most, will probably give you the important parts of this classic without omitting anything of value.

Classical analysis of economics demonstrating the importance of material conditions in the progressive development of society. ( )

Critica de la Economía Política.
Libro III. El proceso global de la producción capitalista