Kapital.

£500 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

The first Turkish translation of the hugely influential Carlo Cafiero abridgement of the first volume of Kapital, originally published in Italian in 1879, it was one of the earliest abridgements of Kapital and was much admired by Marx himself. The translation was undertaken by the Turkish journalist, academic and politician Suphi Nuri Ileri (1887-1945), an influential public figure in the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey. He founded the newspaper Ileri with his older brother Celal Nuri (1881- 1938) and served as the General Secretary of the Turkish Socialist Party (Türkiye Sosyalist Partisi). He was the author of several books on socialism, including one on the Spanish Civil War, and was a lecturer at Istanbul University Faculty of Law from 1931 until 1945, when he was dismissed for his socialist writings. Suphi Nuri’s translation was based on the 1910 French edition of Cafiero’s abridgement by the Swiss anarchist James Guillaume, and also included a five-page Afterword by Suphi Nuri himself. Suphi Nuri Ileri’s translation was published in direct response to the first book-length appearance of Kapital in Turkish, a translation of the famous Gabriel Deville abridgement by Haydar Rifat published three years earlier in 1933. In a testament to the partisan nature of much left-wing politics, Rifat’s translation proved to be immediately controversial, sparking a series of critiques by various Turkish socialist intellectuals regarding accuracy of translat

• Year: 1936

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