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The Last Years of Karl Marx This page intentionally left blank T H E L A S T Y E A R S O F K A R L M A R X , 18 81 –18 8 3 AN INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHY Marcello Musto Translated by Patrick Camiller Stanford University Press Stanford, California Stanford University Press Stanford, California English translation ©2020 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography was originally published in Italian in 2016 under the title L’ultimo Marx, 1881–1883. Saggio di biografia intellettuale. ©2016, Donzelli Editore. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Musto, Marcello, author. | Camiller, Patrick, translator. Title: The last years of Karl Marx, 1881–1883: an intellectual biography / Marcello Musto; translated by Patrick Camiller. Other titles: L’ultimo Marx. English Description: Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2020. | Translation of: L’ultimo Marx. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019041945 (print) | LCCN 2019041946 (ebook) | ISBN 9781503610583 (cloth) | ISBN 9781503612525 (paperback) | ISBN 9781503612532 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Marx, Karl, 1818–1883. | Communists—Biography. | LCGFT: Biographies. Classification: LCC HX39.5 .M9813 2020 (print) | LCC HX39.5 (ebook) | DDC 335.4092 [B]—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019041945 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019041946 Cover photo: Karl Marx, 1882. Alamy. Cover design: Rob Ehle Text design: Kevin Barrett Kane Typeset at Stanford University Press in 11/14 Minion Pro Dedicated to Babak. In the Foxhole, in the Clinique, or wherever the next will be. Come rain or come shine. This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Note on Sources ix Note on the English Edition xi Introduction 1 Prelude: “Struggle!” 7 1 New Research Horizons 11 2 Controversy over the Development of Capitalism in Russia 49 3 The Travails of “Old Nick” 77 4 The Moor’s Last Journey 105 Chronology, 1881–1883 127 Notes 131 Bibliography 177 Index 189 This page intentionally left blank NOTE ON SOURCES Marx’s writings have generally been quoted from the 50-volume Karl Marx / Frederick Engels: Collected Works (MECW), Moscow / London / New York: Progress Publishers / Lawrence and Wishart / International Publishers, 1975– 2005. In a few cases, the reader is referred to single works translated into English but not included in MECW. When necessary, translations have been modi- fied to conform more closely to the original German. Texts that have not yet been translated into English are referenced to the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA2), Berlin: Dietz / Akademie / De Gruyter, 1975– . . . , of which 67 of the originally planned 114 volumes have so far appeared in print. In the notes and the bibliography, the references to Marx’s writing have been given in German as well as English, drawn from the 44-volume Marx- Engels-Werke (MEW), Berlin: Dietz, 1956–1968, when available, otherwise from the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA2) or from individual works still not published in the latter. Finally, Marx’s still-unpublished manuscripts are indicated according to their location in either the International Institute of Social History (IISH) of Amsterdam or the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI) of Moscow, where they are kept. As regards the secondary literature, quotations from books and articles not published in English have been translated for the present volume. Sometimes the translations of English-language editions of books originally published in other languages have been modified to conform more closely to the original. All the names of journals and newspapers have been given first in English, followed by the original in square brackets. The names of political parties and organizations have been treated in the same way. The birth and death dates of au- thors and historical figures have been provided the first time they are mentioned. A question mark between parenthesis (?) is used where such dates are unknown. ix
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