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It sounds like the English may be more straightforward, though I will say I often need to reread sentence or take a moment to think about what’s being said (beyond being an insightful comment, I mean). I think reading vol. 1 of Capital took me about 2X longer to read than a modern book of a similar word count for this reason.
Yea for sure, it's still Marx, not exactly light reading. German grammar just likes to employ a lot of inversions and overly complex sentence structures - stuff that just doesn't fly to that degree in English, so the translator already did a lot of work to make it more straightforward, on a grammatical level.
The Reddit meme about how easy German because “le Concatenation, just mash words and works” vs the reality of learning all sorts of complex stuff.