A review in Bengali of MEGA2 IV/3: Karl Marx's Notes and Excerpts,1844-1847

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 contains the following Texts: I. Marx’s personal notebook of the years 1844–1847 (pp. 5–30); II. two of his exercise books of the years 1844–45, containing excerpts made in Paris (pp. 35–110); and III. six exercise books containing excerpts made in Brussels in 1845 (pp. 115–433). All the texts of this volume have been published here for the first time in their original contexts, extensively documented and substantiated in the other book of corresponding Textual Apparatus (pp. 449–866); within it the Introduction (pp. 449–482) contains extensive references to the contemporary studies on the authors excerpted by Marx.

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