Talk:Marx/Engels Collected Works

Keep or Delete

• This Wikipedia article page is about a book(s), the standard work on Karl Marx (1818 – 1883) and Frederick Engels (1820 – 1895), consisting of fifty (50) volumes, compiled and published over the period 1975-2005. --Ludvikus (talk) 10:37, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

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• Strong keep. For all the reasons stated and implicit above. --Ludvikus (talk) 10:37, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

First/only translations?

I think, though I'm not entirely sure, that MECW contained the first English translations of some of Marx and Engels's works. It may still be the only English translation of some of them (particularly the letters). I'll try and find out what I can about this, but if anyone else knows, I think these details would make a useful addition to the article.VoluntarySlave (talk) 18:19, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

What this is is the most "complete" collection of the works - it's almost everything Marx and Engels ever wrote. The communists under the Soviet Union published other "collections" - but this is the most "complete" - meaning that some trivial shopping list in Marx's hand (for example) is kept in archives, but is not included in this published collection because it's trivial. --Ludvikus (talk) 19:20, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Well, it's the most complete collection in English. The German de:Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe contains stuff like marginal notes Marx made on other texts, and runs to a hundred and twenty something volumes. I'm not sure how much Marx material there is that isn't in MEGA. There's also the German de:Marx-Engels-Werke, which I think includes more-or-less the same stuff as MECW. VoluntarySlave (talk) 21:49, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

The article from German Wikipedia says the current projection is at least 122 volumes for the complete works. Marxists.org also says this isn't a complete collection, and they've got several texts (in English) that aren't included in the Collected Works (see the bottom of the page). — Malik Shabazz (talk · contribs) 22:50, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Article notes, early 2018

At present, the article consists of two largely redundant tables and slightly confusing language, which can and should be pared down into a single, comprehensive table and supporting article matter. I make this comment as a personal note for something to see about in the future, especially as I have an edition of the series close at hand, and encouraging recent editors to undertake same unless I do it first. MinnesotanUser (talk) 07:16, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

Per the above, I've hidden the code for the article's later table, which is mostly but not totally redundant to the first. The second table includes what appear to be useful summary comments which should be integrated into a larger table about the work. MinnesotanUser (talk) 03:53, 9 July 2018 (UTC)