A Brief History of the Dissemination and Reception of Karl Marx&apos;s <i>Capital</i> in the United States and Britain

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A Brief History of the Dissemination and Reception of Karl Marx's Capital in the United States and Britain

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Author(s): Babak Amini

Publication date (Print): Fall 2016

Journal: World Review of Political Economy

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Keywords: Karl Marx, Capital , history of ideas, Marx's reception in US and Britain

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The year 2017, which marks the 150th anniversary of Karl Marx's Capital, presents an occasion to review the history of one of the most influential books ever written. This article gives an overview of the dissemination and reception of Capital in the United States and Britain over the last 150 years. This article, which is part of a larger ongoing project of writing a global history of the dissemination and reception of Capital (Musto and Amini 2017), seeks to illuminate the path forward in interpreting this important book by identifying how and why Marx's most piercing insights into the foundation of the capitalist mode of production have been received, understood, misunderstood, or ignored by his opponents and proponents.

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Publication date (Print): Fall 2016

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[1] Ablett, N. 1919. Easy Outline of Economics . Sheffield: Plebs' League.

[2] Althusser, L., and É. Balibar. 1970. Reading Capital . New York: Pantheon Books.

[3] Anderson, K. 1983. “The ‘Unknown’ Marx's Capital, Volume I: The French Edition of 1872–75, 100 Years Later.” Review of Radical Political Economics 15 (4): 71–80.

[4] Arthur, C. J., and G. Reuten, eds. 1998. The Circulation of Capital: Essays on Volume Two of Marx's “Capital.” New York: St. Martin's Press.

[5] Baran, P. A. 1957. The Political Economy of Growth . New York: Monthly Review Press.

[6] Baran, P. A., and P. M. Sweezy. 1966. Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order . New York: Monthly Review Press.

[7] Bellofiore, R., and N. Taylor, eds. 2004. The Constitution of Capital: Essays on Volume I of Marx's Capital . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

[8] Braverman, H. 1974. Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century . New York: Monthly Review Press.

[9] Buhle, P. 2013. Marxism in the United States: A History of the American Left . Brooklyn: Verso.

[10] Dobb, M. 1946. Marx as an Economist . London: Lawrence & Wishart.

[11] Ely, R. T. 1883. French and German Socialism in Modern Times . New York: Harper & Brothers.

[12] Fine, B. 1975. Marx's Capital . Macmillan Studies in Economics. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

[13] Fine, B., and A. Saad-Filho. 2004. Marx's Capital . 4th ed. London: Pluto Press.

[14] Fine, B., and L. Harris. 1979. Rereading Capital . New York: Columbia University Press.

[15] Foley, D. K. 1986. Understanding Capital: Marx's Economic Theory . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

[16] Foner, P. S. 1967. “Marx's ‘Capital’ in the United States.” Science & Society 31 (4): 461–66.

[17] Fowkes, B. 2015. Karl Marx: The Economic Manuscript of 1863–1865 . Boston: Brill.

[18] Gronlund, L. 1884. The Cooperative Commonwealth in Its Outlines: An Exposition of Modern Socialism . New York: Lee and Shepard Publishers.

[19] Harvey, D. 2010. A Companion to Marx's Capital . London: Verso.

[20] Harvey, D. 2013. A Companion to Marx's Capital . Vol. 2. London: Verso.

[21] Heinrich, M. 2012. An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital . New York: Monthly Review Press.

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[23] Hobsbawm, E. J. 2011. How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism . New Haven: Yale University Press.

[24] Kapp, Y. 1976. Eleanor Marx: Volume II—The Crowded Years (1884–1898) . London: Lawrence & Wishart.

[25] Kliman, A. 2006. Reclaiming Marx's “Capital”: A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency . Lanham: Lexington Books.

[26] Laveleye, E. 1881. Le Socialisme Contemporain . Bruxelles: C. Muquardt.

[27] Lindsay, A. D. 1925. Karl Marx's Capital: An Introductory Essay . London: Oxford University Press.

[28] Macintyre, S. 1980. A Proletarian Science: Marxism in Britain, 1917–1933 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[29] Marx, K. 1977. Capital: A Critique of Political Policy Capital . Translated by B. Fowkes. New York: Random House.

[30] Marx, K. 1992. Marx's Capital: A Student Edition . Edited by C. J. Arthur. London: Lawrence & Wishart.

[31] Marx, K. 2010a. The First International and After: Political Writings . Edited by D. Fernbach. London: Verso.

[32] Marx, K. 2010b. The Revolutions of 1848: Political Writings . Edited by D. Fernbach. New York: Verso.

[33] Marx, K. 2010c. Surveys from Exile: Political Writings . Edited by D. Fernbach. New York: Verso.

[34] Mattick, P. 1969. Marx and Keynes: The Limits of the Mixed Economy . Extending Horizons Books. Boston: P. Sargent.

[35] McLaine, W. 1922. An Outline of Economics . London: Plebs' League.

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[40] Musto, M., ed. 2014. Workers Unite! The International 150 Years Later . New York: Bloomsbury.

[41] Musto, M., and B. Amini, eds. 2017. The Dissemination of Marx's “Capital” in the World (1867–2017) . Special issue of Socialism and Democracy 31 (1): Forthcoming.

[42] O'Connor, J. 1973. The Fiscal Crisis of the State . New York: St. Martin's Press.

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[45] Rae, J. 1884. Contemporary Socialism . New York: C. Scribner's Sons.

[46] Riazanov, D. 1927. Karl Marx, Man, Thinker, and Revolutionist: A Symposium . London: M. Lawrence.

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[52] Tsuzuki, C. 1961. H. M. Hyndman and British Socialism . Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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[54] von Böhm-Bawerk, E. 1898. Karl Marx and the Close of His System . London: T. F. Unwin.

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[56] Woolsey, T. D. 1880. Communism and Socialism in Their History and Theory: A Sketch . New York: Scribner.