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Zanthorus
1st August 2011, 18:43
The edition of Marx's 'Wage Labour & Capital' which is on both MIA and Marx2Mao is basically the 1891 edition which was edited by Engels to conform to Marx's more developed opinions on political economy, for example passages are added which delineate the distinction between labour and labour-power which was never actually mentioned by Marx prior to the Grundrisse. I'm interested however in looking at how Marx's opinions developed, which means it'd be nice if anyone knew where to find an edition of WL&C without the later editing by Engels.
S.Artesian
1st August 2011, 22:40
Is it in the MEGA?
Zanthorus
1st August 2011, 23:07
Apart from the very limited vocabulary I managed to pick up from secondary school the German language (And by extension the Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe) is inaccessible to me, unfortunately. I'm guessing the MECW won't be much help either because the MIA versions are all html transcriptions of the MECW apart from the Mathematical Manuscripts and some of the IWMA material. It's possible that the original MS no longer exists, all though it must have been lost or destroyed sometime after 1891 since Engels would've needed the original to write the edited version (The rat Bernstein was the executor of Engels estate and had, among other things, the manuscript for 'The German Ideology' so it's not out of the question I suppose).
EDIT: Argh, and even the link to WL&C archived under the Neue Rehinische Zeitung index by MIA goes to the 1891 edition.
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