I should correct my earlier posting.  I suggested Duncan Foley's
Understanding capital and Harry Braverman's Labor and Monopoly Capital.
But I meant them as companions to Volume I of Capital by Marx himself,
which I also assign.  Reading Marx gives students the opportunity to
distinguish who he was from what they have heard about him.  We read
parts of Capital together in class until students get the general rhythm
of how he writes.

Marie Duggan