Why waste months of your life reading the dusty 3 volumes of a 19th century authoritarian? Yes Capital does have a few interesting and still relevant points, but also a load of dogma and metaphysical claptrap we'd do better to move well away from. Marx worked very much still in the frame of the 19th century "bourgeois" economics of Smith, Ricardo etc., and shared many of their basic presuppositions. Thus the focus on supposed objective interests: our technocratic leaders of scientific socialism can understand our true economic interests while the rest of us are lost in false consciousness. And much the same attitude to work, industrialisation, productivity and growth as the capitalist system that is burning up our planet. The labour theory of value itself derives from Locke's liberal defence of private property, originally invented to justify expropriation of the commons and the lands of "idle" and "unproductive" indigenous peoples. As for this idea that Marxism was fine until Lenin came along and ruined it all ... anarchist federation comrades maybe you want to read a bit of Bakunin ?!

A few alternative reading suggestions:
Kropotkin "Conquest of Bread"  http://libcom.org/library/the-conquest-of-bread-peter-kropotkin
Bob Black "The Abolition of Work"  http://www.primitivism.com/abolition.htm
Kaput "Capitalism for anti-Capitalists"  https://network23.org/kaput/