The ACG is pleased to be publishing the first English language print edition of Cafiero’s summary of Marx’s Capital.
Capital, Marx’s epic work, describes in detail the capitalist system and how it functions. The anarchist Mikhail Bakunin saw the importance of Marx’s Capital, to the extent that he put any rivalries with Marx aside and immediately embarked on the first Russian translation.
But Capital is a notoriously hard read…
The anarchist communist Carlo Cafiero, rather than translate it, wanted to popularise Marx’s work in order to make it easier to read and be better understood by those who didn’t have a university education or weren’t so well versed in economics. In other words, his Compendium was aimed at ordinary working people.
Cafiero’s Compendium is a gateway to understanding the contents of Marx’s Capital.
This edition, translated by Paul M. Perrone, contains an ACG introduction and a biography of Carlo Cafiero.
Compendium of Capital is available direct from from the ACG.
108 pages
Price £7 + £1.40 postage
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2020/07/18/compendium-of-marxs-capita...
Neat, seems like the 2018 translation (strange that it took 139 years for a translation to appear) is up on MIA as well:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/cafiero/1879/summary-of-capital.htm
Also from wiki:
"During his imprisonment his contacts with the International never ceased and Cafiero wrote his best-known work: A Compendium of Das Kapital, published in 1879 in Milan by the publishers of La Plebe. The work was appreciated and praised by Karl Marx, the author of the original book, who found it superior to other similar works. The Compendium was written in order to bring the theory of Das Kapital to students, educated workmen and small proprietors"
would be interested in the source for "appreciated and praised by Karl Marx".
edit: here i'm guessing
https://www.marxists.org/archive/cafiero/1879/summary-of-capital.htm#app...