El Capital. Crítica de la Economía Política. Traducido de la Cuarta Edición Alemana por Juan B. Justo.

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The first complete Spanish translation of Das Kapital, translated by the Argentine socialist Juan Bautista Justo (1865-1928), the principal founder of the Socialist Party of Argentina (Partido Socialista de Argentina) and its acknowledged leader until his death. Juan Justo’s particular brand of socialism provides an interesting example of the attempt to adapt Marxism to non-European, pre-industrialised socio-economic conditions. His politics were broadly aligned with that of the German social-democratic ‘revisionist’ Eduard Bernstein, emphasising gradual societal change over revolution, a position that was in turn determined by the influence of the social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer in Justo’s thought. “Like Spencer, he linked the notion of human biological struggle to political theory and stressed evolutionary progress in society. While embracing Marx’s general vision of history as expressing evolutionary ideas, he rejected Marxist ideas of imperialism and even advocated the encouragement of foreign investment in Argentina in order to speed up economic and social development and, hence, the evolutionary process toward full socialisation of the means of production. He also revised the Marxist view of class with its emphasis on the proletariat to take account of the social composition of Argentina, where there was a very small, underdeveloped working class” (Walker Gray, Historical Dictionary of Marxism, p. 161f). Justo’s translation of Kapital came about as a result of a six

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