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My problem is the "Germanisms" Marx uses in Kapital. There's compound words that are difficult to parse, for example. I've wondered if German versions are easier to understand for German speakers?

Example from chapter 1 of volume 1:

The utility of a thing makes it a use value. But this utility is not a thing of air. Being limited by the physical properties of the commodity, it has no existence apart from that commodity. A commodity, such as iron, corn, or a diamond, is therefore, so far as it is a material thing, a use value, something useful. This property of a commodity is independent of the amount of labour required to appropriate its useful qualities. When treating of use value, we always assume to be dealing with definite quantities, such as dozens of watches, yards of linen, or tons of iron.

This is really easy to understand, in very simple terms. But then we get to section 2:

To resume, then: In the use value of each commodity there is contained useful labour, i.e., productive activity of a definite kind and exercised with a definite aim. Use values cannot confront each other as commodities, unless the useful labour embodied in them is qualitatively different in each of them. In a community, the produce of which in general takes the form of commodities, i.e., in a community of commodity producers, this qualitative difference between the useful forms of labour that are carried on independently of individual producers, each on their own account, develops into a complex system, a social division of labour.

He uses "community" and "commodity" multiple times in one paragraph with multiple run-on sentences and probably more commas than is legally allowed in the state of Vermont. It's a very "Anglish" way of speaking, which makes sense if you're German (like Marx), but my native English speaker brain wants different words and punctuation for this to make sense.