Bangali

This article interrogates Marx's remarks of 1857-1858 on translation, in light of the history of translation and transmission of texts and ideas in ancient, medieval and modern Eurasia. Marx wrote: "It is no less wrong to compare language with money. When expressed in language, our ideas do not change in such a way that they lose their own characteristics, but retain their social character, like prices next to…

This dialogue started with some questions about the results of the just concluded parliamentary elections in Chile and Germany (2021), and then went on to discuss the role of elections and wars in the Aufhebung [sublation/transformation] of  bürgerlichen Gesellschaft [civil society/ bourgeois society], its states/governments, and that of the idea and reality of 'left' and 'right' in politics, since the days of the…