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I'm welcome to Behind the News. My name is Doug Henwood. A radical departure from

Orthodoxy today, the usual two segments but two guests in each.

Paul North and Paul writer will talk about their new translation of the first

volume of Marxist capital, and Nimrod Flaschenberg and Alma Itzaki will report on the

vicious political environment that's prevailed in Israel over the year since the October 7th attacks.

There are two existing translations of the first volume of Marxist capital, which people sometimes

refer to by its German title, Daskapitale. That practice is always mystified me.

You don't hear people citing Gunter Gross's great 1959 novel, the tin drum, as De Blechtromo.

Is there something irredeemably German about Marx's masterpiece?

Something threatening that must be kept at a distance?

Back to the translations.

The first edition in English translated by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling and supervised

by Friedrich Engels appeared in 1887.

A newer translation by Ben Fawkes was published in 1977, usually referred to as the vintage edition.

And now a new translation is out, creating quite a splash

among Marx officinato's, this from Princeton University Press, with Paul Writer as

translator and editor and Paul North as editor. This edition is part of a torrent. There's been an explosion

in translations of capital into other languages as well, a product of a revived interest in a writer

who's been pronounced dead more times than neoliberalism.

Here to talk about their addition and the importance of the book more generally are the two

Paul's. Paul North is a professor of German at Yale and Paul writer a professor of German

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