From: Christopher Arthur (cjarthur@WAITROSE.COM)
Date: Fri Apr 09 2004 - 06:59:15 EDT
Hans I notice you quote from MECW 35. I fear this may well become the standard reference so note the folowing item I published a while ago. Note: On Marx-Engels Collected Works Volume 35 Chris Arthur On the subject of the Marx-Engels Collected Works, I would like here to correct the generally favourable review of Volume 35 I published in Studies number 3. This volume is the English translation of the first book of Capital edited by Engels. It was made from the third German edition. Subsequent to that the fourth German edition appeared with additions inserted by Engels, notably passages from Marx¹s French edition. It is standard practice for new printings of Engels¹ English edition to add these passages from his fourth German edition; this is done in the Lawrence & Wishart edition of 1983, for example. But here, in MECW 35, the process failed. On p.37 Engels¹ Preface to the fourth edition lists five places where he put in additions from the French, and the CW 35 editors give the corresponding pages to this edition. Unfortunately in only one of the five is the addition both correctly made and indicated. Nothing at all has been done in two places; and, catastrophically, these are the two substantial ones. On p. 37 an addition of four pages is indicated at Œpp. 582-83¹, but at the relevant spot on p. 583 nothing appears. On p. 37 an addition of two pages is indicated at Œpp. 621-22¹ but these pages give the old third edition material instead of substituting for it the new fourth edition expansion. In sum this Volume 35 is neither the original 1887 text, nor a properly updated one. 17 Bristol Road, Brighton, BN2 1AP, England
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