New Marx/Engels Internet Archive Notes (11/18/1996)
misc.activism.progressive
Date: 1996/11/18
From: David Walters (dwalters@igc.apc.org)
Subject: New Marx/Engels Internet Archive NotesThe Marx/Engels Internet Archive now has its own domain name. Please edit your bookmarks to the new address: http://www.marx.org. See the notes below on the subarchives for other Marxist writers. The following are the new additions to the M/EIA and subarchives from October 2 through November 16th. October 2 1996: ADDITION: Rosa Luxemburg and Mass Action. (Thanks to Dave Hollis.) October 22 1996: UPGRADE: Footnotes from a Chinese edition of Engels' 1847 work Principles of Communism have been added. In short: translator Paul Sweezy thought it unlikely a previous version of this work existed, however, it was later discovered such a document did exist (called the Communist Confession of Faith, also written in 1847). These additional notes also contain some "answers" which are left blank in the "Principles of Communism." (Thanks to Michael J. Griffin.) October 26 1996: ADDITION: New central hub set up at marx.org. Other Marxist archives now found at http://www.marx.org/Lenin, http://www.marx.org/DeLeon, http://www.marx.org/Luxemburg, http://www.marx.org/Trotsky etc. November 8 1996: ADDITION: Our first Spanish language translation of a Marx/Engels work: Origins of the Family. It's currently not HTML-ized, it's a full RTF document November 9 1996: UPGRADE: Revamped Trotsky Internet Archive. ADDITION: Trotsky photo gallery opened. ADDITION: Trotsky's 1932 essay On Lenin's Testament. (Thanks to Doug Fullarton.) November 10 1996: ADDITION: Rosa Luxemburg's famous 1916 work, The Junius pamphlet. (Thanks to Dave Hollis.) November 11 1996: ADDITION: Marx's 1842 "parliamentary" report on Prussian laws on "theft of wood" in forests. Marx would later pinpoint this as the beginning of his studies in economics. November 11 1996: ADDITION: Rosa Luxemburg's 1918 article The Socialisation of Society, which examines what shape a future socialist society might take -- an issue oft overlooked in the history of Marxist literature. (Thanks to Dave Hollis.) November 12 1996: UPGRADE: Fresh HTML mark-up on Marx's 1847 book The Poverty of Philosophy -- his rebuttal to Proudhon's own book, The Philosophy of Poverty. If you haven't read this work, or read it in some time, give a special glance at part 5 of the second chapter, Strikes and Combinations of Workers. It's Marx's first clear statement about union activity in the proletariat. Unlike almost every other socialist of his time, Marx clearly comes out in favor of unions ("combinations" as they were then called): "Large-scale industry concentrates in one place a crowd of people unknown to one another. Competition divides their interests. But the maintenance of wages, this common interest which they have against their boss, unites them in a common thought of resistance -- combination." As combinations mature and grow, soon they reach a new stage and become political. November 15 1996: ADDITION: The Introduction to Trotsky's 1931 Permanent Revolution. More to come. (Thanks to Sally Ryan.) November 15 1996: ADDITION: The The Military Writings of Leon Trotsky, Volume One, 1918. Right now, we have the author's preface and introduction, plus all 8 chapters of section one: "The Spring of 1918." Please note: This is a five volume collection, so stay tuned! (Thanks to David Walters.)