I've said before that Vol II is...difficult, to say the least

I read Vol I in like 2017 stand Marx's longer works gathered dust in my backlog for years. I finally stopped giving a fuck about bringing explicitly communist literature to work and firced myself to read the later volumes while alternating with other history books.

Arrighi's subject coverage is so all-encompassing that reading his main trilogy works actually sets me into a frenzy of frantic activity.