Original Text Of Das Kapital And Grundrisse

[ComradeRed]

Are there any fer batum books that has word for word what Marx wrote down in the ORIGINAL language(s) for sale(or preferably online) for Das Kapital and Grundrisse? The reason I ask is because from what I have heard(and read) Marx wrote in whatever language was available to him. As a matter of fact, in a single letter he used over three languages(englisg, french, german, and I think latin)!

[Bolshevist]

He wrote it in German, but in letters to his friend Engels he often used a mixture of languages that is very hard to read. Did this answer your question?

edit: Check out Francis Wheen's "Karl Marx". If you have some questions concerning Marx's life, you're bound to find answers there!

[Ian]

Marx never intended Grundrisse to be published and it was in fact only published sometime in the 1920s, so if you find any authentic Karl Marx Grundrisse Merchandise don't take it too seriously

[redstar2000]

I doubt if a "literal" or "word-for-word" translation of any book is available...and it would be virtually unreadable if it were.

Effective translation is an art...and one that requires a very high order of linguistic skill.

The story is told of a computer translation program asked to translate the phrase "the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak" from English into Russian and then back into English.

It came out: "the wine is good but the meat is spoiled". :lol:

:redstar2000:

The Redstar2000 Papers (http://www.redstar2000papers.fightcapitalism.net)
A site about communist ideas

[Djehuti]

Hrmm, there is some original Marx, Engels, Luxemburg, etc works to be read at
http://www.mlwerke.de/ if you understand german.