> Marx isn't easy. I know a very reputable young novelist with excellent politics who found the first three chapters of Capital nearly impossible to get through.
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Shifting topics now, I wonder what effect the German language and its translation has on the difficulty of Marx's prose. Maybe there's someone here - maybe Angelus - who could answer this question - is Marx's prose more or less difficult for the average German to read than, say - I don't know - Adam Smith's for the average American/Briton? Or maybe Thorstein Veblen's (he could be kind of muddy sometimes)?
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