On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 2:10 AM Vladimiro Giacche' < vladimiro.giac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Couldn‘t be Marx‘ Critique of GOTHA Program (1875, Published by Engels in > 1891) instead ? > Could be, Vladimiro. Of course i don't KNOW. Maybe Ronald Suny has the sources and resources to eventually be able to definitely answer. There might be useful evidence in other Stalin biographies. Apparently Stalin and his comrades were reading their first basic socialist texts. In the same paragraph i quoted from initially, Suny mentions that they were soon also reading the first volume of *Capital* along with "*The Communist Manifesto*, Marx’s *The Erfurt Program*, and Engels’s* The Development of Scientific Socialism."* If *"Engels's The Development of Scientific Socialism" *was their translation of "*Socialism: Utopian and Scientific*" these are all well known and widely studied basic works of socialism - with the exception of the mysterious "Marx’s *The Erfurt Program." * My conjecture is that they were reading Kautsky's "The Erfurt Program" misidentified as being Marx's. "The Erfurt Program" was being spread widely throughout the socialist movement as the model contemporary Marxist program. It seems to fit well with their other basic reading on marxist socialism. I see *The Critique of the Gotha Program* as more of an insider document initially written as a private letter in 1875 for discussion among leaders and not published during Marx's lifetime. Engels published it in *Die Neue Zeit *in 1891 as a contribution to SPD preparation of a new program for the Erfurt Congress (which would replace the Gotha Program of 1875). I'm guessing that Stalin and his young friends were more likely to be reading Kautsky's *The Erfurt Program* than Marx's *Critique of the Gotha Program* in 1896-97 in Tbilisi (aka Tiflis w/in Russian empire). -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#2187): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/2187 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/77194602/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
