Hal Draper
Hal Draper (born September 19, 1914 in Brooklyn , † January 26, 1990 in Berkeley , California) was an American socialist , Marxism researcher , author and translator . He earned his living as a librarian at the UC Library in Berkeley ( Doe Memorial Library ).
His best-known works are the four-volume study Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution , as well as his shorter essay The Two Souls of Socialism , in which he differentiates between authoritarian and anti-authoritarian versions of socialism . In addition, he created a new translation of Heinrich Heine's poetry into English.
In the USA he was a member of the following organizations:
- Young People's Socialist League
- Socialist Workers Party (1938-1940)
- Workers Party later renamed the Independent Socialist League (1940-1958)
- Socialist Party of America (1958-1964)
- Free Speech Movement Berkeley 1964
- Independent Socialists (1964–1968)
- International Socialists (1968–1971)
Works
- Jim Crow in Los Angeles. Los Angeles 1946.
- Berkeley: The New Student Revolt. New York 1965.
- The two souls of socialism. Berkeley 1966.
- Zionism, Israel, & the Arab: the historical background of the Middle East tragedy. Berkeley 1967.
- The Dirt on California: Agribusiness and the University. Berkeley 1968.
- The mind of Clark Kerr, his view of the university factory & the 'new slavery'. Ann Arbor 1969.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution. (4 vol.). New York 1977-1989.
- The Marx-Engels Chronicle; a day-by-day chronology of Marx and Engels' life and activity. New York 1985. ISBN 0-8052-3909-X
- Marx-Engels Register: A Complete Bibliography of Marx and Engels' Individual Writings. New York 1985.
- The "dictatorship of the proletariat" from Marx to Lenin. New York 1987.
- Socialism from below. Edited by E. Haberkern. Atlantic Highlands 1992. ISBN 0391037323
- War and revolution: Lenin and the myth of revolutionary defeatism. Edited by E. Haberkern. Atlantic Highlands 1996. ISBN 0391040022
Translations and edits
- Writings on the Paris Commune / Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels. Ed. by Hal Draper. New York 1971.
- Complete Poems of Heinrich Heine / a Modern English Version by Hal Draper. Boston 1982. ISBN 3518030620
- The Annotated Communist Manifesto . Alameda 1988. ISBN 0916695069
Web links
- Hal Draper Internet Archive at marxists.org
- Center for Socialist History
- The two souls of socialism (1966) - also on marxists.org
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SURNAME | Draper, Hal |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American socialist, Marxism researcher, author and translator |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1914 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn , New York City , New York |
DATE OF DEATH | January 26, 1990 |
Place of death | Berkeley , California |