Jean Lievens: A Publisher Tries to Privatize Marx & Engels — Public Backlash

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It's madness to ‘privatise' Marx – thanks to Piketty he's back in vogue

Austerity and the financial crisis mean economics is in the news, so why is a publisher taking Marx and Engels offline?

The global economic and financial crisis has led to a renewal of interest in Karl Marx. Only a few weeks ago the New York Times ran a forum with leading economists with the theme “Was Marx right?“. Thomas Piketty's recent book, Capital in the 21st Century, conducts an implicit dialogue with Marx over how to understand capitalism and confront its contradictions. So it is very sad that at this moment the publisher Lawrence & Wishart is forcing the Marxists Internet Archive (MIA) to take down those parts of Marx's and Friedrich Engels' Collected Works that it had hosted on its website with the authorisation of the publisher. It is particularly unfortunate that it insisted this happen by the eve of May Day, when international working-class solidarity is celebrated worldwide.

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