Hal Draper

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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:

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

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personal data
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