Its such a good fucking book, as well as his next book on Make Believe Media as a snapshot of a kind of socialist media criticism in the early 90s that’s a dazzling work of materialist analysis.
I know a lot of people that poopoo Parenti but I think his books are fucking excellent.
the original (the 1890s one by Engles I believe) is super good compared to the Penguin one because some of the newer publications of Capital literally added words by selectively translating words that may or may not have been translated previously. Concepts like Valorization are essentially linguistic artifacts of such translations, as argued by Cockshott --> https://youtu.be/XV518Z6ob_E
Socialism4All did a capital volume 1 audiobook reading and the commentary he offers is absolutely transformational while also being very minimal. --> https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXUFLW8t2snu8BtqMfedSA6AaNcfXjFmN
This is a stark comparison to Heinrichs “Introduction” to Capital which reads as quite revisionist to me as I am not a “Value-Form” advocate who denies the TRPF as Henrich does.