Kritika Niekotorykh” polozhenii politicheskoi ekonomii. (Zur Kritik der Poltischen Oekonomie.)

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The first translation into any language of Marx’s A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy , the “germ” of Das Kapital and Marx’s first attempt at a general statement of his economic theory, one of two editions of the same Russian translation published in the same year without established priority. Originally published in German in 1859, Marx’s Contribution* represented the first major exposition of the Marxist interpretation of history and political economy, and Marx himself described Das Kapital as a continuation of the ideas set forth in this earlier work (PMM). The Contribution has been widely overshadowed by the monumental influence of Kapital and as such translations of the work appeared relatively late, with the first English translation published as late as 1904. A single chapter from the book had earlier been translated into Russian, appearing as an appendix to the Marxist economist Nikolai Ziber’s 1882 Russian edition of the Works of David Ricardo. However, the present Russian version is the earliest full translation of the work that we have been able to trace in any language and is of particular note as it appeared the year before the second German edition, published in 1897 under the editorship of Karl Kautsky, which served to reintroduce the long-neglected text to the literature of socialism. Two separate editions of the present Russian translation were published in Moscow in 1896, both of which state ‘Izdanie Vladimira Bonch”-Bruebicha’ (‘Published by

• Year: 1896

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