Spanish-language Marx(ist) works?
Dec 30 2008 03:42
A correspondent of mine asked about good introductory works on Marx(ism) in the Spanish language.
I recommended Michael Heinrich's introductory book on _Capital_, which was published in Spanish, and said correspondent find it quite useful. Besides the Marx-Engels works themselves, which presumably are adequately available, what other stuff is out there? Is all that Bonefeld/Holloway Open Marxism stuff available? What about Postone? Rubin? Paschukanis?
How about biographical works on Marx?
I doubt there's very much Open Marxist stuff available in Spanish, although I think Holloway has been translated. But I've never really checked, as that's not my sort of thing.
I think most of the "classics" have been translated into Spanish, perhaps even more than have been translated into English. (Grossman's whole book is available in Spanish, for example, whereas only about 1/3 of it has been published in English.) I know Rubin has been translated (a couple of essays from his book are here), Hilferding, Sweezy, Luxemburg, Rosdolsky, a lot of Korsch (I don't know if "Karl Marx", his best introductory text, has been translated or not), etc.
I'd recommend looking at Siglo XXI Editores. They have a lot of Marxist stuff, new and old. Also he can check abebooks for specific titles. The problem is that a lot of Marxist books are out of print and hard to find in Spanish, not that they haven't been translated.