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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