>From Sydney J. Chapman's unpublished autobiography:
> I remember particularly well two courses by Professor Foxwell, one on > Currency and Banking, and one on early English Socialistic writers, several > of whom he had *rescued from oblivion*. Both courses had grown and grown > as Foxwell added to his information and new facts had to be incorporated. It > is much to be regretted that he did not publish a book on each subject. The > only survival of any size that I know of is a lengthy introduction about > early English socialistic writers contributed to a volume by another writer. > But he had his excuse. He was kept continuously busy making his collection > of early economic books and pamphlets, and his bibliography in connection > with it, his great achievement. But for this many a print rare by then would > have been lost by now to all intents and purposes. > One of those pamphlets Foxwell "rescued from oblivion" was the same pamphlet that Engels said Marx had *rescued from oblivion*: The Source and Remedy of the National Difficulties. Foxwell's "lengthy introduction" was to "The Right to the Whole Produce of Labour" [available from Internet Archive]] by Anton Menger (brother of Austrian economist Carl Menger). In a footnote, Menger expressed doubt "whether Marx drew his views on this question from the pamphlet quoted by Engels, The Source and Remedy of the National Difficulties, London, 1821, which contains only faint hints of the theory." But Menger would not have had access to the Grundrisse or to the Economic Manuscript of 1861 -1863. -- Sandwichman
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