MARX, Karl; RIFAT, Haydar (trans.)

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Sermaye. First appearance in book form of Marx's Das Kapital in Turkish, being the first edition of Haydar Rifat's translation, and the first book-length translation (preceded only by Bohor Israel's summary translation in a 1912 journal).The translation is of Gabriel Deville's abridgement of the first volume of Das Kapital, originally published in Paris in 1883. Internationally acclaimed, Deville's abridgement "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). The translation was undertaken by Haydar Rifat (1877-1942), later known as Yorulmaz, one of the most prominent translators of the late Ottoman and early Republican periods. Particularly associated with the formation of the leftist discourse in Turkey, his 1910 translation of George Tournaire's Le Socialisme is held to be the first socialist book published in Turkish (see Konca, p. 81, 86ff).The translation was preceded only be a short summary of Das Kapital in Turkish by the socialist Bohor Israel in 1912, which was published as an article in the first and only issue of his journal Ceride-i Felsefiye (Philosophical Newspaper) under the title "Iktisad-i Içtimaiye" (Social Economics). However, this was described by Israel himself as less a translation than a "summary of the summary" (Savran & Tonak, p. 2); this is therefore the first sustained translation (as opposed to a summary), and the first appearance of Das

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