[Marxism] Translation history of Das Kapital

[Lüko Willms]

Jim Farmelant (farmelantj at juno.com) wrote on 2009-05-31 at 11:29:41 in  
about [Marxism] Translation history of Das Kapital:
> 
> 
> Among the works read by Gandhi
> was the English translation of
> Das Kapital by Samuel Moore
> and Edward Aveling.  It is my
> understanding that Moore & Aveling
> only translated volume I, and that
> volumes II and III were only
> first translated into English later
> on by Ernest Untermann
> for an American edition that was published
> by Charles H. Kerr & Co. of Chicago.
> Is that correct, or am I in error on that point?

  Engels mentions in three letters written in 1889  that Sam Moore went to 
Africa as Supreme Judge of the Niger Company, and that Moore planned to 
translate the third volume of Das Kapital there. But there is no mention that 
this plan was actually carried out. 

  One letter is to Nikolai Franzevitch Danielson in Petersburg (1989-07-04), 
two to Friedrich Adolph Sorge in Hoboken (1989-06-08 and 1989-10-12). 

  There is no mention of a translation of the second volume of Das Kapital in 
the index to MEW (Marx-Engels-Werke, the 40 volume Marx/Engels edition of 
Dietz Verlag, Germany). 


Comradely yours, 
Lüko Willms
Frankfurt, Germany
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