New Translation of Marx's Capital, Vol. 1 w/ Paul North & Paul Reitter
Guerrilla History
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🗓️ 29 November 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on the translator/editors of the new translation of Capital Vol. 1 by Karl Marx. We discuss, in addition to other things, the reasons why it was decided that this new translation was needed, the political background to making that decision, why the 2nd German Edition was used for making the translation from, why these introductions were used, whether there will be translations of the subsequent volumes of Capital and if a paperback edition will come out, and more! An enlightening discussion, lots of food for thought, and plenty of room for constructive dialogue and critique - let us know what you think of the conversation!
Paul North is the Maurice Natanson Professor of German at Yale University. His books include The Yield: Kafka's Atheological Reformation.
Paul Reitter is professor of Germanic languages and literatures and former director of the Humanities Institute at the Ohio State University. His translations include The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon.
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| 0:31.6 | Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, |
| 0:35.6 | the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. |
| 0:39.7 | I'm one of your co-hosts, Henry Huckimacki, joined as usual by my co-host, Professor Adnan |
| 0:44.6 | Hussein, historian and director of the School of Religion at Queens University in Ontario, Canada. |
| 0:49.8 | Hello, Adnan. How are you doing today? I'm doing great, Henry. It's wonderful to be with you. |
| 0:55.5 | Absolutely. As always, it's a pleasure seeing you. And we have two terrific guests with us today about a really |
| 1:01.0 | fascinating new translation of a work that I'm sure the listeners have heard about because we have |
| 1:05.8 | talked about this book dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens of times over the course of |
| 1:10.7 | this show. |
| 1:11.3 | But we haven't talked about this new translation on the show yet. |
| 1:15.0 | But before I introduce the two individuals that we are interviewing today about this new |
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