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MEGA [Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe] on MEGA

Posted by Ross Wolfe

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Back in the 1920s, the Russian revolutionary and Marxist scholar David Riazanov began to compile a new, more complete edition of the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. He was, unfortunately, purged during the 1930s for supposed involvement in an anti-Soviet conspiracy. Riazanov was thus unable to see this project through to the end. Nevertheless, he set the wheels in motion for future Marxologists and exegetes like Maximilien Rubel, Roman Rosdolski, and Michael Heinrich. Work on the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe [MEGA] continues today.

Anyway, I recently happened across a trove of full-text PDFs of the MEGA stored on the New Zealand cloud service known as MEGA, appropriately enough. You can download the files as a .zip file by clicking here. Quietly amused that this arrived to me indirectly via a certain oversharing Francophile lefty editor type. Makes me wonder what all his posturing over “pirate scab PDFs” was really about.

Speaking of which, Budgen — Lars Ulrich of the online left — is apparently upset with me yet again. Class act that he is, Sebastian associated me with the disgusting rape advocate Roosh V. (an antisemitic conspiracy theorist and extreme misogynist) and the disgusting pharmaceutical CEO Martin Shrkeli (who jacked up the price of vital medicines once he’d secured exclusive rights over the drugs). If anyone resembles a douchebag who sells stuff he didn’t develop himself for obscenely inflated prices while monopolizing said product… you would think it was Budgen. Especially considering the company he keeps: people who make fun of others with physical deformities or who have a darker complexion on account of their ethnic background. Roosh V. and Simon Weston are reactionaries, to be sure, but that should hardly be seen as giving one license to make racist or ableist comments about them.

Getting back to what’s important here, though, the MEGA. Or you can download them all here, a bit out of order:

5 thoughts on “MEGA [Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe] on MEGA”

Mike S Goodmann

February 5, 2016 at 2:25 pm

dvd51@tds.net

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 1:24 PM, The Charnel-House wrote:

> Ross Wolfe posted: “Back in the 1920s, the Russian revolutionary and > Marxist scholar David Riazanov began to compile a new, more complete > edition of the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. He was, > unfortunately, purged during the 1930s for supposed involvement in an ant” >

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Jara Handala

February 7, 2016 at 5:14 pm

Thanks again for this, Ross.

That Seymour is despicable: how can a professed socialist, even a Marxist, say this about someone who had many, many facial operations over many years to reconstruct his face?

What merits Seymour being recognised as a nasty piece of work deserves to be on show, not hidden away in a link:

The misanthrope’s parents much be so proud of their well-educated ignoramus.

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it's about the argument, not you or me

February 9, 2016 at 2:41 pm

1) 60 files are usefully individually listed above but the folder has another 10.

MEGA’:

2) 3 of the 11 books (making up the 10 volumes) are in the folder. 5 others are available at:
http://www.ub.uni-koeln.de/cdm/search/searchterm/5603911/field/identi/mode/all/conn/and/order/date

4 other books also came out of this project: in an exercise in innovative Stalinist marketing, there were 2 two-for-one offers, a bilingual edition (German & Russian) of the arguments that became labelled by others as ‘The German Ideology’ (solely in German as Abteilung I, Band 5), & a Freddy blockbuster of a special kind, ‘Anti-Dühring’ & ‘Dialectics of Nature’; & some notebooks published, in two books, as ‘Grundrisse’ (although Marx himself entitled that research, using italics, as “Kritik der Ökonom. Categorien” – letter to Lassalle, 22 Feb 1858; p.87 of the MEGA² PDF, link #26 above).

MEGA²:

3) Although most of the folder is in German, the language of composition, there are also these (the last one isn’t MEGA²):
Roy’s French-language translation of ‘Das Kapital’, v.1 (1872-5: published in instalments, like a Balzac novel) – #23 above;
Moore & Aveling’s English-language translation of ‘Das Kapital’, v.1 (1887) – #38;
English-language edn. of Marx’s notes on Indian history (a chronology; Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow) – #58.

4) The folder has 60 of the 70 books so far published (122 is the plan, constituting 114 volumes – the excess 8 books are all ‘economic’ texts, but 2nd edns. have reduced this to 4). The 10 missing from the folder are:
I (‘non-economic’ books & articles): 3, 24, 26, 27, 29-32;
II (‘economic’ books & manuscripts): none – & the whole section has been published;
III (correspondence: 4k from E&M, 10k to them – the novelty): 30 (Oct 1889-Nov 1890; will include transcript of a seance hosted by Tussy, when Chuck answered questions from Highgate . . . well, the idea wouldn’t have surprised Vanessa Redgrave et al.);
IV (miscellany, incl. many unpublished notebooks): 31.

5) The 52 not published yet: 12 in section I; 21 in III; 19 in IV.

6) The title of each of the 122 books, some contents & introductions, have conveniently been put online by the project managers:
mega.bbaw.de/struktur/abteilung_i (etc.).

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Jara Handala

February 10, 2016 at 2:47 pm

1) Usefully, 60 files are individually listed above but the folder has another 10.

MEGA’:

2) 3 of the 11 books (making up the 10 volumes) are in the folder. 5 others are available at:
http://www.ub.uni-koeln.de/cdm/search/searchterm/5603911/field/identi/mode/all/conn/and/order/date

4 other books also came out of this project: in an exercise in innovative Stalinist marketing, there were 2 two-for-one offers, a bilingual edition (German & Russian) of the arguments that became labelled by others as ‘The German Ideology’ (solely in German as Abteilung I, Band 5), & a Freddy blockbuster of a special kind, ‘Anti-Dühring’ & ‘Dialectics of Nature’; & some notebooks published, in two books, as ‘Grundrisse’ (although Marx himself entitled that research, using italics, as “Kritik der Ökonom. Categorien” – letter to Lassalle, 22 Feb 1858; p.87 of the MEGA² PDF, link #26 above).

MEGA²:

3) Although most of the folder is in German, the language of composition, there are also these (the last one isn’t MEGA²):
Roy’s French-language translation of ‘Das Kapital’, v.1 (1872-5: published in instalments, like a Balzac novel) – #23 above;
Moore & Aveling’s English-language translation of ‘Das Kapital’, v.1 (1887) – #38;
English-language edn. of Marx’s notes on Indian history (a chronology; Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow) – #58.

4) The folder has 60 of the 70 books so far published (122 is the plan, constituting 114 volumes – the excess 8 books are all ‘economic’ texts, but 2nd edns. have reduced this to 4). The 10 missing from the folder are:
I (‘non-economic’ books & articles): 3, 24, 26, 27, 29-32;
II (‘economic’ books & manuscripts): none – & the whole section has been published;
III (correspondence: 4k from E&M, 10k to them – the novelty): 30 (Oct 1889-Nov 1890; will include transcript of a seance hosted by Tussy, when Chucky answered questions from Highgate . . . well, the idea wouldn’t have surprised Vanessa Redgrave et al.);
IV (miscellany, incl. many unpublished notebooks): 31.

5) The 52 not published yet: 12 in section I; 21 in III; 19 in IV.

6) The title of each of the 122 books, some contents & introductions, have conveniently been put online by the project managers:
http://mega.bbaw.de/struktur/abteilung_i (etc.).

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vequinox

February 18, 2016 at 10:14 pm

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