Editing Reading Capital (section)

{{Short description|1965 book by Louis Althusser}}
{{Infobox book 
| name             = Reading Capital
| title_orig       = Lire le Capital
| translators      = Ben Brewster<br>David Fernbach
| image            = File:Reading Capital, 1966 French edition.jpg
| caption          = Cover of the 1966 edition
| authors          = [[Louis Althusser]], [[Étienne Balibar]], [[Roger Establet]], [[Jacques Rancière]], [[Pierre Macherey]]
| illustrator      = 
| cover_artist     = 
| country          = France
| language         = French
| series           = 
| subject          = ''[[Das Kapital]]''
| publisher        = François Maspero
| publisher2       = [[Verso Books|New Left Books]]
| pub_date         = 1965
| english_pub_date = 1970
| media_type       = Print ([[Hardcover]] and [[Paperback]])
| pages            = 340 (abridged English translation)<br>565 (complete English translation)
| isbn             = 978-1-78478-141-5
}}
{{Marxism}}
'''''Reading Capital''''' ({{langx|fr|Lire le Capital}}) is a 1965 book about the philosopher [[Karl Marx]]'s ''[[Das Kapital]]'' by the philosophers [[Louis Althusser]], [[Étienne Balibar]], and [[Jacques Rancière]], the sociologist [[Roger Establet]], and the critic [[Pierre Macherey]]. The book was first published in France by François Maspero. An abridged English translation was published in 1970, and an unabridged translation in 2015. The book was influential among intellectuals.