Marx-Engels Complete Edition

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The Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) is the complete, historical-critical edition of the publications, the posthumous manuscripts (drafts) and the correspondence between Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels . It presents the literary legacy of Marx and Engels in its entirety for the first time . In addition to the writings, articles and letters that are already known - including letters from third parties addressed to them - there are a number of previously unpublished or newly discovered works. In addition, all manuscripts, drafts, notes and excerpts are published.

All texts are reproduced in the language of the respective originals, true to the handed-down authorized text templates, based on the original manuscripts and prints. Unfinished manuscripts are presented in the processing stage at which the authors left them.

MEGA fully and clearly documents the development of the work from the first sketch to the final version with the help of modern editing methods . The scientific commentary takes place in separate apparatus volumes: In an introduction, the presented material is presented and classified according to the history of science.

Each work is presented with a history of origin and transmission, including proof of authorship, the justification for dating and a precise description of the manuscripts and authorized prints that have been handed down. This is followed by indexes of variants, indexes of corrections and explanations with factual information, references and sources inherent in the work, as well as an extensive register.

MEGA 1

Volumes I / 1 of MEGA 1 (1927/1929) and MEGA 2 (1975) in direct comparison.

As early as 1927 to 1935 or 1940, a Marx-Engels Complete Edition (the so-called First MEGA or MEGA 1 ) was published in Moscow , but after the arrest (1931) and execution of the head of the Marx-Engels Institute there, David Ryazanov 1938 and other employees in the course of the Stalin purges was canceled. A total of fourteen volumes of this edition have been published; important texts of the early work were published here for the first time. The Marx-Engels-Archiv was published as a scientific accompanying organ in German in two volumes in 1925 and 1927 in Frankfurt am Main and a Russian edition, partly in two languages. The first five volumes were edited by Ryazanov, another seven by Vladimir Adoratsky .

MEGA 2

The edition project was started at the end of the 1960s by the Institutes for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Central Committee of the SED . Compared to the study edition of the Marx-Engels-Werke (MEW), a complete reproduction of the entire correspondence of the two authors, all excerpts, notes, marginal glosses in books, etc. was planned. The first volumes of the edition appeared in 1975 by Dietz Verlag ; By 1991/1992, 40 (double) volumes or partial volumes were published by the old editors and editorial offices. The edition was accompanied by the Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch (1978–1991) in 13 volumes, by the articles on Marx-Engels research (1977–1989) in 29 issues, the Halleschen Arbeitsblätter zur Marx-Engels-Forschungs (1976–1979) ) in 23 issues and the Marx-Engels research reports in 6 issues.

Since 1990 MEGA has been published by the International Marx-Engels Foundation (IMES) in Amsterdam. IMES was founded in 1990 on the initiative of the Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis (IISG) Amsterdam, whose archive contains most of the manuscripts by Marx and Engels, in order to continue the MEGA that was started in Moscow and Berlin in the 1970s. The politically independent IMES is an international network to which today, in addition to the IISG and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, the Historical Research Center of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Bonn and the Russian State Archives for Socio-Political History (RGASPI) in Moscow belong. Scientists in Germany, Russia, the Netherlands, Japan, France, Denmark, Italy and the USA are currently working at the MEGA, whose editing work is coordinated at the Berlin Academy. MEGA has been published by Akademie Verlag since 1998 , through which the volumes published from 1975 to 1993 by Dietz Verlag, Berlin, can also be obtained.

In the course of the restructuring after 1990, the main characteristics of which were the depoliticization and academization of the edition, new edition guidelines (1993) were also adopted. a. led to a reduction in the number of planned volumes. MEGA is mainly edited at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW) in conjunction with international teams of editors who edit individual volumes.

From 2011 onwards, the volumes previously published will be made digitally accessible. The following volumes of the second section "Capital and preliminary work" can currently be viewed.

  • Volume 1.1. and 1.2. ("Floor plans")
  • Volume 4.1. (The capital. Economic manuscript 1863–1865 by Marx)
  • Volume 5 ("Das Kapital", Hamburg 1867)
  • Volume 11 ("Das Kapital". Manuscripts for the second book from 1868 to 1881 by Karl Marx)
  • Volume 12 ("Das Kapital". Second book. Editing manuscript by Friedrich Engels 1884/1885)
  • Volume 13 ("Das Kapital". Second volume. Hamburg 1885)
  • Volume 15 ("Das Kapital", Volume 3, printed version 1894)

The issue was accompanied by the journal MEGA-Studien , originally published every six months by IMES from 1994 to 2002 , which dealt with Marx's and Engels' work in terms of editorial studies . The newly founded Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch has been fulfilling this task since 2003 .

The Joint Science Conference (GWK) has decided on 30 October 2015, the completion of the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) in neukonzipierter form. In future, the volumes and a large part of the excerpts will only be published digitally.

structure

The edition is divided into four sections and will comprise 114 volumes:

Department I (works, articles, drafts)

The volumes in this department contain all the philosophical, economic, historical and political works, writings, articles and speeches by Marx and Engels as well as traditional preliminary stages and later adaptations including the translations made by Marx and Engels themselves, regardless of whether the texts were completed. This does not apply to Marx's work Das Kapital with the directly associated preliminary stages. All writings are made available in the original languages ​​and in all authorized versions (including translations). Manuscripts that have survived (plan sketches, drafts, fragments, etc.) including the development of the text within the manuscript are also included. Works by Marx and Engels that have undergone changes without their consent, works by other authors that were edited by Marx and Engels or were created with their direct participation, works for which the authorship of Marx and Engels cannot be proven with sufficient certainty are attached , as well as documents signed by Marx and Engels, published in an appropriate form. The I. Department of the MEGA will comprise a total of 32 volumes.

Department II ( Capital and Preparatory Work)

Karl Marx , Theories of Added Value , 1956

This section brings together Marx's work Das Kapital in its authorized editions, including translations, and all related works and manuscripts, beginning with the economic manuscripts of 1857/1858 . For the first time, all of Marx's economic manuscripts are presented in full, including the manuscript from 1861 to 1863, the core of which is “Theories of Added Value”, and Marx's manuscript from the years 1863 to 1868, which is the original version of the second and only one of Marx's draft of the third volume contains. The authorized prints of the first volume of “Kapital” include the four German editions, the French edition edited and significantly modified by Marx and the English translation reviewed by Engels. Likewise, the versions of the second and third volumes of “Capital” developed and edited by Engels from Marx's manuscripts are published. The final volume II / 4.3. appeared in 2012. This completes Section II of the MEGA (15 volumes in 23 sub-volumes).

Department III (correspondence)

This section contains the entire traditional correspondence between Marx and Engels: the letters written by them (or on their behalf) and the letters addressed to them - including numerous first publications - in chronological order. The department will comprise a total of 35 volumes.

Department IV (excerpts, notes, marginalia)

This department brings together all excerpts , individual excerpts , chronological tables, bibliographic registers as well as notebooks, address lists, receipts and other individual notes from Marx and Engels. Then there are the marginalia by Marx and Engels in the books they have read. With the department's 32 volumes, extensive materials from their literary estate are mostly being published for the first time.

Chinese edition of the works of Marx and Engels based on MEGA 2

In China, the second edition of the works of Marx and Engels has been published on the basis of MEGA 2 since the mid-1990s , after the first edition (from 1953 to 1983) not original texts but translations of parts of the second Russian edition of the works of Marx and Engels were based on.

Awards

In 1981 the "collective of the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe" "for its work in the field of Marx-Engels research in the publication of the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe" was honored with the national prize of the GDR 1st class for science and technology.

literature

  • Karl Marx Friedrich Engels Complete Edition (MEGA). Sample tape. Editing principles and specimens . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1972
  • Karl Marx Friedrich Engels Complete Edition (MEGA). Fourth section Excerpts - Notes - Marginalia. Sample booklet . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1983
  • Rolf Dlubek : Early initiatives to prepare a new MEGA (1955–1958). In: Contributions to Marx-Engels-Research New Series 1992. Argument, Hamburg 1992. ISBN 3-88619-744-1 , pp. 43–55.
  • Carl-Erich Vollgraf: The commentary - Achilles heel of the second MEGA? In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New episode 1992 . Argument Verlag, Hamburg 1992, pp. 5 ff. ISBN 3-88619-744-1 .
  • Richard Sperl : The MEGA's principle of completeness - editorial gigantism? In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New episode 1992 . Argument Verlag, Hamburg 1992, p. 21 ff. ISBN 3-88619-744-1 .
  • Jürgen Jungnickel: A few comments about the registers in the MEGA . In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New episode 1992 . Argument Verlag, Hamburg 1992, p. 34 ff. ISBN 3-88619-744-1 .
  • Rolf Dlubek: facts and documents from an unknown section of the prehistory of the MEGA (1961–1965). In: Contributions to Marx-Engels-Research New Series 1993. Argument, Hamburg 1993. ISBN 3-88619-744-1 , pp. 41–63.
  • Carl-Erich Vollgraf: Again for comments in the second MEGA. Case studies . In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New episode 1993 . Argument Verlag, Hamburg 1993, p. 69 ff. ISBN 3-88619-744-1 .
  • Manfred Schöncke: Notes on the edition of the correspondence in the MEGA . In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New episode 1993 . Argument Verlag, Hamburg 1993, p. 82 ff. ISBN 3-88619-744-1 .
  • International Marx-Engels-Foundation Amsterdam (Ed.): Karl Marx Friedrich Engels Complete Edition (MEGA). Editing guidelines for the Marx-Engels Complete Edition (MEGA) . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1993 ISBN 3-320-01815-9 .
  • Rolf Dlubek: The creation of the second Marx-Engels Complete Edition in the field of tension between legitimizing mandate and editorial diligence. In: MEGA studies 1994/1. Edited by the International Marx-Engels Foundation, Amsterdam. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1994. ISBN 3-320-01826-4 , pp. 60-106.
  • Richard Sperl: The new edition guidelines for the Marx-Engels Complete Edition (MEGA) with a preliminary remark by Jacques Grandjonc . In: MEGA Studies 1994/1 . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1994, pp. 32-59 ISBN 3-320-01826-4 .
  • Rolf Dlubek: New foundations for the continuation of the MEGA. In: Contributions to the history of the labor movement. 35th year Berlin 1995, No. 4, pp. 99-110.
  • Richard Sperl: Marx-Engels Editions . In: Rüdiger Nutt-Kofoth, Bodo Plachta (Hrsg.): Editions on German-speaking authors as a mirror of the history of editions . Niemeyer, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-484-29702-6 , pp. 329-360.
  • Gerald Hubmann, Herfried Münkler , Manfred Neuhaus : "... it depends on changing them". For the resumption of the Marx-Engels Complete Edition (MEGA) . In: German magazine for philosophy . Issue 2. 2001. pp. 299-311. ISSN  2192-1482
  • Richard Sperl: "Edition at a high level". On the principles of the Marx-Engels Complete Edition (MEGA) . Argument, Hamburg 2004 ISBN 3-88619-653-4 .
  • Thomas Marxhausen : »MEGA - MEGA« and no end (PDF; 161 kB). In: UTOPIE Kreativ , issue 189/190 (July / August 2006), pp. 596–617.
  • Gerald Hubmann: From Politics to Philology: The Marx-Engels Complete Edition . In: Editions - Change and Effect . Edited by Annette Sell. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-484-29525-4 , pp. 187-201.
  • Michael Krätke : The whole of Marx . In: “WOZ - Die Wochenzeitung” , August 3, 2006.
  • David Ryazanov : Foreword to MEGA 1927 (PDF; 126 kB). In: UTOPIE Kreativ , issue 206 (December 2007), pp. 1095-1011.
  • Jens Grandt : Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels - newly edited and newly developed. Westfälisches Dampfboot Verlag, Münster 2018. ISBN 978-3-89691-287-9
  • Waltraud Falk , Frank Zschaler : On the first English edition of the first volume of "Capital" by Karl Marx. https://marxforschung.de/2016/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/BzMEF-23-W.-Falk+F.-Zschaler-S.-78-81.pdf

Web links

Wikisource: MEGA 1  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Volumes 1 (in 2 parts), 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of the first section (until March 1848) were published. From the third section, Marx and Engels' correspondence was published in 4 volumes and as a special volume of the Anti-Dühring . In addition, the outlines of Marx's Critique of Political Economy , which appeared in Moscow in 1939/40, are also included, even if they did not show the MEGA on the title page.
  2. ↑ Contents of the Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.marxforschung.de
  3. ^ Table of contents Contributions to Marx-Engels research( Memento of the original from September 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.marxforschung.de
  4. ↑ Contents nisse Hallesche worksheets on Marx-Engels research ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.marxforschung.de
  5. ↑ IMES ( Memento of the original from July 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bbaw.de
  6. ↑ MEGA volumes available
  7. ↑ See the original project planning and the redimensioning required after 1990. ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bbaw.de
  8. ↑ telota.bbaw.de
  9. ↑ MEGA studies table of contents
  10. ^ Table of contents Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch 2003 ff.
  11. ↑ BBAW / PM-18/2015 of October 30, 2015 (accessed November 3, 2015)
  12. ↑ I. Department
  13. ^ Section II
  14. ↑ III. Department
  15. ↑ IV. Department
  16. ↑ Xu Bei: China-affiliation of a German Marx-Engels researcher.
  17. ↑ Neues Deutschland, October 8, 1981, page 4