O Capital. Resumido e acompanhado de um Estudo sobre o socialismo scientifico por Gabriele Deville.

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The year 1912 saw the publication of two entirely separate Portuguese translations of Das Kapital with no established priority as to which technically appeared first, a bizarre and seemingly unexplained occurrence marking the first appearances of the text in Portuguese. Both translations were based on the famous Gabrielle Deville abridgement of the first volume of Das Kapital , originally published in Paris in 1883. Deville’s “internationally acclaimed” abridgement was widely translated, serving as the first appearance of Das Kapital in numerous languages, and arguably “did more to disseminate the arguments of Marx’s revered but unread magnum opus than did any other publication before or since” (Stuart, Marxism at Work , p. 25). Marxism developed comparatively late in Portugal. Although the Portuguese Socialist Party was founded in 1875, it was blighted by factional struggles and lacked mass support, largely owing to the dominance of anarchism in the Portuguese trade union movement. The Party contributed little to the proliferation of Marxist thought in Portugal and, unlike in other countries, did not directly promote the translation and publication of Marxist texts. Indeed, very few translations of the works of Marx and Engels appeared in Portuguese prior to the publication of the two translations of Das Kapital presented here. The first Portuguese translation of the Communist Manifesto appeared in 1873 in the journal O Pensamento Social , which also published a translation

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