What am I in for?

Go sell your shit book somewhere else "anonymous"

There's absolutely nothing outdated in the Capital books

Okay buddy

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Long and difficult read.

Lol babby's first book

German critical philosophy + british economics + french politics.

A must read for any intellectual...

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Based

>First English edition of 1887
Absolute horse shit, get the modern Penguin translation

coats

You will understand how this shit works. Contrary to 99% of the people, and people on Yea Forums who say it's shit because the real reason is that they don't even have the willpower to read and understand it.

The foremost religious scripture of the last centuries.

Finding out why the labour theory of value is fundamentally correct

Yes, to add on this, watch cockshott vids on Youtube.
He literally demonstrated that labor theory of value is correct.
youtube.com/watch?v=emnYMfjYh1Q

Marx taking pages upon pages to say something he could have said in a single paragraph. This book could be a couple hundred pages shorter if Marx weren’t so repetitive.

Say it in a single paragraph

A coupe hundred pages shorter, it's still 800 pages. The brain needs things to be repeated in order to memorize.
Don't forget to read Vol.2 and Vol.3.

Effortpost here, unlike the shitposting above.

Capital is harder than it seems, especially the first three chapters. You can easily misunderstand the labor-theory of value, thus giving false credit to austrian critiques. For example, some of them say that Marx theory is stupid because if something has labor contained in it, that doesn't make it valuable. Right. Marx agreed with that and he said so explicitly. But as I was saying, the first three chapters are difficult. It gets easier once you go on though. Some chapters are incredibly fun to read (the historical chapters).

So, keeping in mind these difficulties, I will give you some advice and recommendations. Don't expect to really understand chapter n°1 for the first time. Read it. Do your best. But you will come back to it, so don't worry if you don't get everything. Keep in mind that the rest of the book is easier and much more enjoyable if you can survive that. You will also need auxiliary bibliography, so here I'll write some recommendations:

-Rosdolsk, "The making of Marx's capital": a great and long book, again, you don't have to read it complete. But if you are having difficulties with something, go and look it here. Basically, Rosdolsky reconstructs Marx's arguments using both Capital and Grundrisse (the drafts of Capital). It is also a difficult book, though.

-David Harvey, Companion to Capital: a lot of people will call this bullshit, but they're total brainlets who haven't read capital. This is a really easy book for beginners, really enjoyable and full of today examples that will remind you why Capital is both relevant and interesting. Some people dislike Harvey for being a "revisionist", and though he did said some stupid shit outside this book (he wrote an article claiming that Marx didn't have a LTV), his arguments are actually good and quite deeper. I would say: if you don't get something, read Harvey first and Rosdolsky later.

That's pretty much all the advice that I can give you.

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I forgot: the fourth section of the first chapter, which talks about "fetishism", is the key to properly understand LTV. Don't forget that.