A living idea
The apathy of official Marxist parties in India to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Karl Marx's first volume of Das Kapital: Kritik der politischen Ökonomie, published on September 14, 1867, is not unexpected. Official Marxism is, in essence, Leninism. Hardly 10 per cent of the top brass of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the Communist Party of India and the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) bother to note that Marx's magnum opus was unfinished. Between June and November 1871, Marx wrote at least three letters to Nikolai Danielson, who translated it into Russian and published it in 1872, expressing a desire to rewrite the whole of the magnum opus defying protracted illness.
Sankar Ray
Published 12.10.17, 12:00 AM