It seems like a good time to actually read the whole book. It will be more complicated for me than in Swedish perhaps, but it would be good to learn the lingo in English.
I haven't read the whole book in Swedish either - I could never bear it when I was younger - it just seemed so impossibly large and complicated. But I have read a good few bits and pieces on separate occassions and I think I'm ready for the whole of it now.
I don't think you have to read Capital to be a socialist. I was never an academic socialist but more a regular person with good common sense who happened to be good at talking to people.
But with the current situation I do feel like I want to read through it more thorough. Also I feel that if I read it in English I wont feel so confused with which words to use when I talk about politics in English.
Just looking at the quote below tells us that Marx knew very well what he was talking about back then and that it very much can be applied to what is happening at the moment:
"Owners of capitalism will stimulate [the] working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks which will have to be nationalized and [the] State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism." Karl Marx
I'll leave you with that.
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