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Reclaimed Dasein

4th February 2009, 02:40

As many of you may know, I've been working to get the Das Kapital Manga translated into English because I think it could serve as a powerful tool to introduce people to Marxism. I've imported a bunch of manga from Japan, pulled off the spine, and scanned them, but now I've hit some snags. The website I'm going to ultimately post it on is Managa Helpers which is a community that aids in translation, corrections, and hosting. However, the scans I commisioned are too high of quality. So right now what I immediately need is some enterprising soul to try and reduce all three chapters to a total of about 300 megs. If you could do that and just repost it on megaupload or a similar site, I'd be very appreciative.

Also, if you have Japanese translation or touchup skills then please join our translation group and lend a hand. If you're interested in the manga go ahead and join us, we'll use the group to distribute new information.

I'll edit this post once the 3rd chapter is uploaded.

Das Kapital Chapter 1:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UG0MPWXL

Das Kapital Chapter 2:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WW5YWR9O

Das Kapital Chapter 3:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1R7WJXKS

Das Kapital Manga Home, Revolutionary Translations:
http://mangahelpers.com/s/revolutionarytranslations

LOLseph Stalin

4th February 2009, 05:26

I so want to read it once it's in English!

RaiseYourVoice

5th February 2009, 10:06

http://www.megaupload.com/de/?d=STUZ4ZF5

Is that size/quality ok? If so i could resize and upload the whole thing by tomorrow.

Reclaimed Dasein

5th February 2009, 11:08

http://www.megaupload.com/de/?d=STUZ4ZF5

Is that size/quality ok? If so i could resize and upload the whole thing by tomorrow.
Thank you. That's exactly right. Can you zip the entire thing into one zip (not rar) folder and put it on mega upload? If you can do it by tomorrow, I'll try and have it up for you by the evening. Good job, thanks for your help. This is exactly what we need.

Revolutionary Youth

5th February 2009, 12:12

I'll lend you a hand...errr...no...two hands!!!:thumbup:

The Idler

5th February 2009, 14:26

Aren't the publishers going to do an English version?

Reclaimed Dasein

5th February 2009, 15:28

Aren't the publishers going to do an English version?
The simple answer seems to be no. I haven't seen anything at all that seems likely that east press will be translating this into any market since they haven't do so with any other of the manga as far as I can tell. Yet, even if they were, does it matter? We should start getting this out to people as quickly as we can since it will be able to serve as a good introduction. If hard copies became available in English, then it might be worth buying them to hand out to individuals. As it stands now, I bought 5 copies already and that seems likely to be more money than they would have made from the American market otherwise.

RaiseYourVoice

5th February 2009, 15:31

Das Kapital Ch1-3 Zipped
http://www.megaupload.com/de/?d=9L0GTK9M

Got done earlier than expected.

Reclaimed Dasein

5th February 2009, 15:38

Das Kapital Ch1-3 Zipped
http://www.megaupload.com/de/?d=9L0GTK9M

Got done earlier than expected.
I'd love to give you personal credit, or would you prefer to be anonymous? Also, feel free to join the translation project itself, if you're so inclined. I appreciate your help immensely. I hope we can move forward quickly on this so we can get this into the hands of the people.

Revolutionary Youth

5th February 2009, 19:01

But I must admit that this style of drawing really disappoints me...

Reclaimed Dasein

5th February 2009, 21:32

But I must admit that this style of drawing really disappoints me...
It's got a more no nonsense style, but I think it wants to be as accessible as possible. In that case, excessive flourishes would be counter productive.

OneNamedNameLess

5th February 2009, 21:40

Thanks RD and everyone who is helping with this.

Can you please let me know when the translation is complete?

Honggweilo

5th February 2009, 22:14

THX! been looking for those for almost a month now!

Reclaimed Dasein

5th February 2009, 22:30

Thanks RD and everyone who is helping with this.

Can you please let me know when the translation is complete?
I'll post it on here of course, but feel free to join our group on Manga Helpers, it will send you PMs every time we have some sort of update. Thanks for your support, raise your voice also deserves a lion's share of the credit as well for shrinking the RAWS down to a manageable size. I recommend you thank him on his post.

OneNamedNameLess

5th February 2009, 22:32

Cool.

How do I join the group?

I'm not a manga maniac I just think this sounds like a really good idea. It's selling like wildfire in Japan too.

Reclaimed Dasein

5th February 2009, 22:37

Cool.

How do I join the group?

I'm not a manga maniac I just think this sounds like a really good idea. It's selling like wildfire in Japan too.
Basically sign up for the site, then go to revolutionary translations and hit the subscribe to all and then just add it to your favorites. It it's too much of pain though, you can be sure I'll keep everyone posted on this thread and probably in my sig.

PoWR

19th February 2009, 00:19

The illustrated books "Marx For Beginners" aka "Introducing Marx", "Das Kapital For Beginners" aka "Introducing Das Kapital" and others in the series by Rius seem more fitting to the U.S. and other English-speaking countries. You can often find copies of these books at very low prices.

Qayin

19th February 2009, 02:56

i got my friend Marx For Beginners for xmas

Honggweilo

24th February 2009, 22:38

MovementsCreateRevolution

8th August 2009, 02:59

Could you give us an update on how your glorious work proceeds? :)

Can't wait to read the result.