Yes interestingly this is being billed as the first translation which wasn't done by socialists. Would be curious to see how it differs from previous versions, and what people familiar with previous versions think about it
The translation into colloquial American English reads ok but the 15-page Foreword and a 30-page Editor’s Introduction are both unhelpful and undermine the rest of the book. The Preface is mainly gibberish by someone who dismisses as ‘fantasy’ what she calls ‘a perfectly rational, controlled and transparent communist political economy on the far side of a capitalist epoch’; according to her, Capital is a work of philosophy, a ‘deep ontological and epistemological critique of capitalism’. The Editor, too, sees Marx as basically a philosopher and opines that in Capital ‘nowhere really does Marx condemn the capital system or call for revolution’. But, then, both of them are philosophers who only want to interpret the world.
Any German speakers, I'd be…
Any German speakers, I'd be interested to see how it compares to Hans G Ehrbar's translation:
https://content.csbs.utah.edu/~ehrbar/akmc.pdf
Yes interestingly this is…
Yes interestingly this is being billed as the first translation which wasn't done by socialists. Would be curious to see how it differs from previous versions, and what people familiar with previous versions think about it
The translation into…
The translation into colloquial American English reads ok but the 15-page Foreword and a 30-page Editor’s Introduction are both unhelpful and undermine the rest of the book. The Preface is mainly gibberish by someone who dismisses as ‘fantasy’ what she calls ‘a perfectly rational, controlled and transparent communist political economy on the far side of a capitalist epoch’; according to her, Capital is a work of philosophy, a ‘deep ontological and epistemological critique of capitalism’. The Editor, too, sees Marx as basically a philosopher and opines that in Capital ‘nowhere really does Marx condemn the capital system or call for revolution’. But, then, both of them are philosophers who only want to interpret the world.