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I found this pretty approachable.
Marx's Das Kapital for Beginners.pdf
Lenin's State and Revolution was surprisingly approachable as well.
If you want something more about history, Parenti's Blackshirts and Reds and Bevin's Jakarta Method.
I would be wary of any "capital for beginners" type of book. It's a hard read, but reading it through someone else's interpretation only leads to their biases getting applied to it, and potentially misconstruing ideas. I think working on reading capital together with people is much better for understanding it and discussing it than reading a simplified interpretation of it. That being said, I haven't read this one in particular, so these are just my general ideas towards that style of book, this one could be a really solid analysis of it for all I know.