Pradip Baksi

Revisiting Maximilien Rubel on the emancipation of women in the works of Marx and Engels

This is a reconstruction of the course of evolution of Marx’s and Engels’s ideas on women’s emancipation by Maximilien Rubel (1905-1996). Rubel drafted this article shortly before his death in 1996. This is a chronological narrative. It has not received the notice that it richly deserves since its publication in French in 1997 and that of its English translation in 2003. In the present transcription of this text I…

MEGA-Kahini [The MEGA-saga], 2004

This is a report in Bengali on the publication of the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA). It was first published in Mizanur Rahamaner Troimashik Patrika (Dhaka), Volume XXII, No. 74 (2004): 100-123.

MEGA-Kahini [The MEGA-saga], 2004

This is a report in Bengali on the publication of the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA). It was first published in Mizanur Rahamaner Troimashik Patrika (Dhaka), Volume XXII, No. 74 (2004): 100-123.

A review of a Book on Karl Marx's Study of Philosophy and the Natural Sciences

This is a review of: Anneliese Griese, Hans Jörg Sandkühler (Hrsg.) [Eds.], Karl Marx–Zwischen Philosophie und Naturwissenschaften [Karl Marx–between philosophy and the natural sciences], Frankfurt/M. [etc.]: Peter Lang, 1997. It was first published in the MEGA-Studien (Amsterdam), 1998/2: 107-110.

A Bengali translation of Roland Daniels’ letters to Karl Marx on human health, labour, technology and a proposed encyclopedia of the sciences, 1851.

These are Bengali translations of some of the letters of Roland Daniels to Karl Marx, written from 08 February to 01 June 1851, containing a narrative on human health, labour, technology, his manuscript titled Mikrokosmos. Entwurf einer physiologischen Anthropologie [Microcosm. Outline of a physiological anthropology], and the need for a new encyclopedia of the sciences.

Rammohun Roy, On issues social and political.

This volume contains the first Bengali translations of some of the English Works of Rammohun Roy. These include his: Brief Remarks regarding Modern Encroachments on the Ancient Rights of Females according to the Hindu Law of Inheritance (1822); Press Regulation: Memorial to the Supreme Court (1823); Appeal to the King-in-Council (1823); a letter to an unknown addressee on the political and economic evils of the…

Interrogating translation now

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…

Reflections on Cyril Smith (1997), Friedrich Engels and Marx’s critique of political economy, Capital & Class, Volume 21 Issue 2, Summer 1997: 123-142:

ABSTRACT: Cyril Smith (1929-2008) https://www.thehobgoblin.co.uk/journal/2008_12_DB_CyrilSmith.htm wrote an article on Friedrich Engels' relationship with and editorial interventions on Karl Marx's critique of political economy, in 1997. Here, that article is supplemented with some notes, an afterword and a bibliography related to edition studies, Marx/Engels studies and science studies, as on 2023. We hope to…