[lbo-talk] The MEGA Finally Online

Angelus Novus fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com
Sun Jan 23 08:15:01 PST 2011


Christopherr Carrico:


> Its there in English? Any links to the content as yet?

No, only in German, since it's basically a compendium of every single text -- i.e. also unpublished manuscripts, fragments, etc. Some of the unpublished material that isn't merely early versions of published works has founds its way into the Marx-Engels Collected Works, far more than was the case with the Marx-Engels-Werke published by Dietz Verlag in Berlin (the famous "blue volumes" produced in the GDR), although Dietz has remedied this somewhat in recent years with supplementary volumes including, for example, the Results of the Immediate Production Process (which Loren Goldner insists on referring to as "the unpublished sixth chapter", even though it's actually the sixth chapter of a now lost manuscript, not the sixth chapter of the ultimately published Capital). The "Results" were widely available in English in the Penguin translation by Ben Fowkes, but were not part of the official MEW Volume 23. About two years ago, Dietz finally got around to

publishing it in a slim paperback with the title "Das Kapital 1.1".

One thing that doesn't have a stable publishing home in English is the first version of Chapter One of Capital, which a lot of "value-form" people like because it makes more specific the connection between abstract labour and money. It's available on the Internet here: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/commodity.htm

In Germany one can either pay almost 200 Euro for the MEGA volume containing it, or a buy one of the volumes of Iring Fetscher's "Marx-Engels Studienausgabe" for about 8 euros.

Mr. Sturmabteilung writes:


> Any word on when the Talmud will be up there?

Ah yes, who was this Marx fellow, and why do people insist on reading his works and trying to understand what he wrote? What a mystical waste of time!



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