"Das Kapital" should be required reading in high schools. I always made it required reading; I required that my own children read it and be ready to discuss it with me. My eldest child (who was a very good research paper writer) wrote a paper on it during junior year high school...it was a magnificent paper....better than I've seen from most college age students: "Fatally Flawed: Marx's Answer to Capitalism in 'Das Kapital'. I kept a copy of it and use it to challenge my college students to do better.