The attitude towards Karl Marx has always caused heated controversy. It was his ideas that had a huge impact on the formation and understanding of the modern world. For many decades, Soviet dogma was the only possible and acceptable interpretation of Marxism. Is it time for new public interest in Karl Marx? Will the theories with which he entered history continue to excite people? Will Marx become more widely read and unaccountably extolled, or will he be forgotten and rejected out of hand? This is reflected in the introductory article by the philosopher and economist, who believe that to answer these and many other questions one should read Marx. We present to the attention of readers the first volume of the main work of K. Marx’s life, “Capital”.