An unpublished manuscript by Marx?

[Kill all the fetuses!]

There's a footnote at the end of Grundrisse:

"44. Marx collected and annotated an immense amount of material on the various theories of the exchange rate: he included this in a draft of 1854-5 entitled 'Money System, Credit System, and Crises'. This manuscript remains unpublished."

Does anyone know anything about the manuscript?

[Noa Rodman]

Geldwesen, Kreditwesen, Krisen is stored in the IISH which will shortly put online their Marx-Engels archive: http://socialhistory.org/en/centrale-project/2015/02/marx-and-engels-checked-and-approved

[Kill all the fetuses!]

Three questions:

(1) I couldn't find when skimming the website - is it clear when the digitalisation will be finished?
(2) Will it be in English translation or German original?
(3) What part of Marx's and Engel's works are approximately unpublished yet with regards to manuscripts, private correspondence etc?

[Ismail]

(3) What part of Marx's and Engel's works are approximately unpublished yet with regards to manuscripts, private correspondence etc?The Collected Works the English-speaking world is aware of comprise 50 volumes. The anticipated Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (aka MEGA) is expected to require more than 120 volumes.

This isn't a unique situation. In the 1980s the CPSU mulled the idea of publishing a new edition of Lenin's Collected Works with an additional 10 volumes (he has 45 in English), but by the time Gorby came around archivists were like "Comrade General Secretary, in this letter Lenin's like 'FIRST INDIA, THEN THE WOOOOORRRRRLLLLLDDDDDDDDD' and I do not believe this will assist us in our campaign for world peace and disarmament" and so the project got delayed and then the USSR died. Likewise Stalin's Works stopped at volume 13 (his writings and speeches up to 1934) out of an anticipated 17 volumes because of the 20th Party Congress, and even then there was stuff left out of the published volumes (same with Lenin's) for either political or just "this isn't that important and we need to keep each volume at around 500 pages" reasons.

[The Idler]

How did they or do professional revolutionaries find the time to write all this?

[Ismail]

How did they or do professional revolutionaries find the time to write all this?When your life's work consists in not only elucidating economics, philosophy, history, etc., but also agitating and convincing people that your position on ideological, organizational and other matters is correct, you'll have a lot to write about. If someone took all your RevLeft posts and put them into a single book I'm sure they would be hundreds of pages long even though you don't notice because you're not writing 30-page pamphlets or 600-page tomes on economics every single post.

Pretty much every self-described communist leader with political power wrote a ton of stuff, even if you'd struggle to think what they could possibly have written so much about. Kim Il Sung has 100 volumes of works (in Korean), Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov as well as Ceaușescu had over 40. Brezhnev, Chernenko, and other fairly boring persons had quite a lot of pages' worth of materials as well. Some of these people had the assistance of ghostwriters.

[Noa Rodman]

Here is the list of ME materials at the IISH archive (they digitized it already, they are just working on still correctly numbering it or something, should be done at most in a few months I guess): http://search.socialhistory.org/Record/ARCH00860/ArchiveContentList

It seems the relevant item is:
B 75.
[Heft LXXIX], 1854-1856, franz., deutsch, englisch.
43 S

(Marx indeed lists a bunch of writers)

It's the original handwriting, so probably most of us will not be able to read this anyway.

His 1878 notes on Kaufman seem more promising btw.

B 140.
[Heft CXXXII], ab III.1878, deutsch

and B 141.

[Noa Rodman]

The Marx and Engels Papers are now accessible online: https://search.socialhistory.org/Record/ARCH00860/ArchiveContentList

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Speaking of the Grundrisse and unpublished manuscripts, there is also: "The Money System as a Whole" which appears on the same page of the OP's citation course.