Globalization, financial crash, climate, poverty revolts, weak growth - the multiple crisis that Western societies are experiencing shows no signs of ending. Is capitalism at its end? This question is now being discussed among the elites at global economic summits. There is good reason to read Capital once again. The book reveals the laws of motion of capitalist societies, critiques the blind spots of economic sciences, and sharpens the concepts with which we can understand the world we live in. The phenomena of our present seem far removed from the world in which Karl Marx wrote his book. However, Capital not only explains the seed forms from which this world emerged but also identifies the historical development and dynamics of the capitalist mode of production that has increased the world's wealth in unimaginable ways.