File spoon-archives/marxism-news.archive/marxism-news_1998/marxism-news.9801, message 58


Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 12:54:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Tom Condit <tomcondit-AT-igc.apc.org>
Subject: M-NEWS: Communist Manifesto


Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 13:16:08 -0500
From: E Haberkern <E_HABERKERN-AT-compuserve.com>
Subject: Communist Manifesto

  The Center for Socialist History, of which I am the Director, has recently
published "The Adventures of the Communist Manifesto" by Hal Draper. This
work, which includes a publishing history, four parallel texts - the
original German, tjhe first English translation by Helen MacFarlane, the
Engels/Moore Authorized version and a New translation by Hal Draper himself
- as well as extensive notes, is an attempt not to interpret the Manifesto
but to try and establish as accurately as possible what it *said* in 1848.
>From one point of view it can be seen as a deconstrustion of the Authorized
version.

As Draper points out, his own translation is not intended to replace the
Engels/Moore version which has become a classic document in its own right,
but to point out its inadequacies as a guide to  the German original.

It is a good place to start.  

Ernest Haberkern
Director
Center for Socialist History
 1250 Addison Street, Rm 101
Berkeley CA 94702
mlipow-AT-pacbell.net
www.gn.apc.org/csh




   

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