Exciting that the MEGA has just published the latest tranch of Marx/Engels correspondance, covering the year 1871 (so including the Paris Commune). Includes an incredible 847 letters to and from Marx & Engels, 496 of which are published for the first time - ThreadSky

brunoleipold.com • 2 days ago

Exciting that the MEGA has just published the latest tranch of Marx/Engels correspondance, covering the year 1871 (so including the Paris Commune). Includes an incredible 847 letters to and from Marx & Engels, 496 of which are published for the first time

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therealelliotde.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is excellent news, thank you for sharing! It is a shame that MEGA is so close to MAGA, I was just going to continue my doom scrolling until I did a double-take that this was a 'MEGA post'

brunoleipold.com•2 days ago

I’ve had that reaction too!

brunoleipold.com•2 days ago

All the letters are published in their original language and are freely available and easily searchable on the MEGAdigital platform https://megadigital.bbaw.de/index.xql

brunoleipold.com•2 days ago

Perhaps slightly dissapointingly there seem to be only 4 previously unpublished letters from Marx and Engels themselves (including Engels asking to get his cistern fixed)

brunoleipold.com•2 days ago

Though there does seem to be one longer letter from Marx and Engels to Paul and Laura Lafargue, where the long Marx section was not previously published https://megadigital.bbaw.de/briefe/detail.xql?id=M0608649

brunoleipold.com•2 days ago

But in any case, the real value of the MEGA correspondence is the letters to Marx and Engels, of which there would seem to be some 490 newly published - a gold mine for Marx/Engels researchers

brunoleipold.com•2 days ago

Some of my favourites Marx letters are the those to his family, including this account of having confronted a spy trailing him in Brighton

brunoleipold.com•2 days ago

Reading through the Paris Commune letters and quite moved by Leo Frankel (member of the Commune Council) writing to "honoured citizen" Marx during a break in the Commune's sessions, apologising for his haste as they are trying to "lay the foundation stone of the social republic"

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