This is an update on the status of publication of the MEGA2 after the collapse of the GDR and the USSR, by Jürgen Rojahn then Secretary of the Internationale Marx-Engels-Stiftung (IMES), Amsterdam; and, a review of MEGA2 IV Volume 3, the first volume of the MEGA2 edited under the auspices of the IMES, by Pradip baksi, published in the Nature, Society, and Thought (Minneapolis), Volume 14, Number 3 (2001): 249-267…

This intervention is kept short on purpose. While it could expand into significant detail, it is not…

Including: strikes in Winnipeg, the Second and Third Internationals, Red Army in Ukraine, Sylvia…

This is another review of MEGA2 IV Book 3: Marx’s Excerpts and Notes from the summer of 1844 to the beginning of 1847, published in the MEGA-Studien (Amsterdam), 2000/1: 129-132.

هرچند مارکس همۀ عمر خود را صرف بررسی و تحلیل «قانون حرکت اقتصادی » جامعۀ سرمایه داری و کارکرد نیروهایی که به گفته وی مقدّر بود آن را تضعیف و در نهایت نابود کنند، کرد؛ امّا جای بسی شگفتی است که مباحث چندان رضایت‌بخشی در خصوص خودِ مقولۀ مارکسیِ سرمایه وجود ندارد. تأکید مارکس بر ضرورت توسعۀ «مفهوم دقیق سرمایه» بود زیرا این مفهوم مطلقاً نمایانگر تناقضات «جامعۀ بورژوایی» و در عین حال، محدودیتهایی است که «روابط بورژوایی…

This is the first volume of the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe [MEGA2], edited under the auspices of the Internationale Marx-Engels-Stiftung (IMES), constituted after the withering away of the GDR in 1989 and that of the USSR in 1990, to continue the publication of the works of Marx and Engels in the original languages. This volume was published by the Akademie Verlag of Berlin. It consists of two books. One book…

Including: resistance to Franco, austerity in Belgium, thousands of anarchist and syndicalists jailed in Bulgaria, London busmens' strike 1937,…

On Belgian-Australian writer Simon Leys and his books on China. Plus Maoism: suicide and madness.

On elitism in revolutionary groups, "capturing" vs destroying the state, etc.

Including: police bill stops cops being in unions, Labour Party: humbug or failure?, Russia, coal,…

Karl Marx’s critique of political economy is oriented on an Aufhebung [a sublation] of classical political economy, for opening up the frontiers of its future as a science, aimed at self-emancipation of the wage-labourer. He divided his corresponding task into 6 topics: capital, landed property, wage-labour; the state, foreign trade and, world market. His output continues to be published within the Marx-Engels…

Karl Marx’s unfinished critique of political economy is oriented towards an Aufhebung [sublation] of classical political economy, for opening up the frontiers of its future as a science, to facilitate the self-emancipation of the wage-labourer. He divided his corresponding task into 6 topics: capital, landed property, wage-labour; the state, foreign trade and, world market. His output continues to be published…