Marx in the MEGA

Marx in the MEGA

This is a preliminary report on the process of transformation of Karl Marx’s papers into published texts after his death. This process started in the second half of the 1880s with Friedrich Engels’ editorial interventions on Marx’s manuscripts related to the theme of Capital within his incomplete research programme for a Critique of Political Economy. It continued through the various volumes of the aborted Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels, Historisch-Kritische Gesamtausgabe,1927-1935 (now called the first MEGA or MEGA1); and, still continues in the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe,1975- (called the second MEGA or MEGA2).

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Marx in the MEGA

This is a preliminary report on the process of transformation of Karl Marx’s papers into published texts after his death. This process started in the second half of the 1880s with Friedrich Engels’ editorial interventions on Marx’s manuscripts related to the theme of Capital within his incomplete research programme for a Critique of Political Economy. It continued through the various volumes of the aborted Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels, Historisch-Kritische Gesamtausgabe,1927-1935 (now called the first MEGA or MEGA1); and, still continues in the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe,1975- (called the second MEGA or MEGA2).

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