Does anyone know about the book Left Communism Reader: Writings on Capitalism and Revolution and what texts it includes? It seems like a hefty book with 700 pages of stuff but the blurb doesn't make clear what texts it actually includes. After all, I don't want to splash almost 15 knicker on texts I may already have on by bookshelf. Anybody know what's in it?
Aug 18 2013 16:00
Aug 18 2013 16:23
Duh! Thanks Jura 
Aug 18 2013 19:08
Also, there really isn't a publisher because it's being printed by a books-on-demand company with no info about who edited it. Sounds fishy.
Aug 19 2013 05:16
Yeah, basically someone put together freely available texts and is trying to sell them. People on Amazon do this with e-books, too, even with stuff that comes from Wikipedia. Can be useful in some cases, but I'd say this is not one of them.
Aug 19 2013 10:58
the catalog of the publisher looks a bit strange: http://prismkeypress.com/?page_id=37 ...
Aug 19 2013 11:41
From that, it looks as if they've just downloaded the whole of marxists.org
Aug 19 2013 12:14
http://prismkeypress.com/?page_id=2
Quote:
“In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.” — Thomas Carlyle“There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.” — G. K. Chesterton
Aug 19 2013 15:12
Perhaps some of us were being too hasty and harsh in judging Prism Key Press. Their catalog does carry every Enver Hoxha text that's been translated to English.
Long live the immortal work of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Enver!
Long live the international Communist movement!
Aug 19 2013 16:24
Just under half the content of this 'Left Communism Reader' is stuff I originally scanned and one of the items I translated. Sadly I note that
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We are not accepting editorial submissions at this time. We will not reply to book proposals or inquires.
Oh well. At least I can now put 'published translator' on my CV 
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You can take a look inside on Amazon.
The table of contents says:
Pankhurst: Communism and its Tactic
Pankhurst: The Future Society
Gorter: Open Letter...
Pannekoek: Workers' Councils
Pannekoek: The Politics of Gorter
Camatte: Capital and Community
Sounds like a ripoff to me!