Marx and Le Capital

Over the past few years, Marx's Capital has received renewed academic and popular attention. This volume is dedicated to the history of the making, the theoretical evaluation, and the analysis of the dissemination and reception of an almost unknown version of Capital: the French translation, published between 1872 and 1875.

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Marcello Musto is Professor of Sociology at York University, Canada.

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Over the past few years, Marx's Capital has received renewed academic and popular attention. This volume is dedicated to the history of the making, the theoretical evaluation, and the analysis of the dissemination and reception of an almost unknown version of Capital: the French translation, published between 1872 and 1875.

Inhalt

1. Introduction (Marcello Musto) Part I: The Value of Le Capital 2. Chapter Marx's 'Capital' after the Paris Commune: The Falling Rate of Employment and the Fate of the Working Class (David Norman Smith) 3. Marx's French Edition of 'Capital' as Unexplored Territory: From the Centralisation of Capital to Societies Beyond Western Europe (Kevin B. Anderson) 4. The French Edition of 'Capital' and the Question of Colonialism (Jean-Numa Ducange) 5. and 'Le Capital': The Politics of the Fourth Edition of 'Das Kapital' (1890) Part II: The Making of Le Capital (Terrell Carver) 6. 'Le Capital': A Transnational, Family, and Personal Endeavour (Kenneth Hemmerechts and Nohemi Jocabeth Echeverria Vicente) 7. From Moscow to Paris: The Russian Roots of the First French Translation of Marx's 'Capital' (Guillaume Fondu) 8. Reading 'Le Capital': Marx as a Translator (Paul Reitter) 9. An Unfinished Project: Marx's Last Words on 'Capital' Part III: The Dissemination and the Reception of Le Capital (Michael R. Krätke) 10. The Contradictory Reception of the French Edition of 'Capital' (Jean-Numa Ducange and Jean Quétier) 11. A Tale of Two Translations: A Comparison of the Roy-Marx and Lefebvre Translations of 'Capital', Volume I (Alix Bouffard and Alexandre Feron) 12. The French Edition of 'Capital' in Germany, France, Anglophone Countries, and JapanPart IV: Letters on Le Capital (Babak Amini) 13. Selected Correspondence on the French Translation of 'Capital' Karl Marx, Maurice Lachâtre, Just Vernouillet, and Friedrich Engels (Introduced, edited, and translated by Patrick Camiller)