[Marxism] Re: Ernest Mandel on historical materialism and the capitalist state

["Jurriaan Bendien" <andromeda246@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Lueko for the compliment and yeah I do like to insert a few open
spaces normally. However on Marxmail posts beyond a certain size are
rejected, hence thinking of the Bello Gallico I divided it in three parts.
Also I edited it a bit, so it would read better in English, but if you can
read the German original, so much the better (the original has no notes in
it, I put those in). As I said to Einde, there's still a few typo's.

Regrettably almost nothing by Leo Kofler has been translated into English, a
pity because he had quite a few important historical and theoretical
insights. See http://www.leo-kofler.de/ I have his book "Geschichte und
Dialektik" which I still think ought to be translated - he makes many
difficult theoretical points easier to understand.

German is often a more "philosophical" language and English a more
"empiricist" language - each has their strengths; sometimes I think German
has more subtlety or nuance which you don't get in English, possibly because
the same word has more meanings or grammatical connections. Certainly when
you translate German into English, usually the word count in English is
lower.

But my English is better than my German...

Jurriaan



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