Fred, I have found over many years of teaching Capital that beginning
with Part III works very well for me and, I think, the students. I always
come back to Parts I and II and was not suggesting that Marx could have
or should have skipped Parts I and II. Nevertheless, I still find Part
I, particularly, the most problematic of Capital, but love reading "The
Buying and Selling of Labor Power" in Part II leading up to its dramatic
last paragraph--almost like the end of the first movement of a great
symphony.
Paul