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Author: Roberto Fineschi

Notes on the Translation of Some Specialist Marxist Terms into Italian and English

Adapted and translated by Gregor Benton and Ingrid Hanon This note by Roberto Fineschi, here adapted, first appeared in Karl Marx, Il Capitale, vol. 1, edited by Roberto Fineschi and translated by Stefano Breda, Roberto Fineschi, Gabriele Schimmenti, and Giovanni Sgrò, Turin: Einaudi, 2024, pp. xxxiv-xlii. Everyone knows the wordplay “traduttore-traditore (translator-traitor)”: valid in general,

The Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe in Italy

The second Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe has enjoyed a degree of popularity in Italy since the late 1970s. When its publications began in 1975, Editori Riuniti, a publisher directly linked to the Italian Communist Party, was publishing an Italian edition of Marx’s and Engels’ Opere complete in 50 volumes (MEOC), modelled on the structure of the English Collected