The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-18

Marx died in 1888 and Engels in
1895. After Marks death, Engels,
his lifelong aollaborator, put in the
remaining years of his life in pre-
pairing for publication as much as
possible of his friends literary herit-
age, neglecting TO devote the neces-
sary tt % it and publish his
own valuable writings. Marx was
able to publish during his lifetime
only the first volume of his monu-
mental work, Capital, and Engels
was forced to devote himself espe-
cially to the publication of Volumes
II and III of this work.
When each of the two founders of
Scientific Socialism had died, they
had bequeathed to the workers of
the world only the writings
which had been published during
their lives, but also a great number
of manuscript in warrior stages of
preparation. Bebel and Bernstein
were the literary executors, and the
German social-democracy made it.
self responsible for publishing all
the works of Marx and Engels. Out
side of Kautsky's work in preparing
Marks volume on Theories of Sur
plus Value, Mehring's work in pub
fishing some of the fugitive writings
OF Marx, which covered only the
period of 1841-1850, and Ryazanov's
selections, covering 1S52-1862, moth
ing was done scientifically to col
tlect, organize and publish the entire
literary heritage of Marx and En-
gels. Even in the heyday of the
German ocial-democracy, before
the war, with its million members,
four million votes, dozens of news
papers, and its big publishing house,
it never bot d about carrying out
the mission with which it was en-
trusted-to make available to the
workers the world the complete
writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich
Engels. The social-democratic party
was fast moving away from the
principles of Marx and Engels and
was not anxious to publish their
complete works. August A, 1914,
was the result of the forsaking Of
the revolutionary teachings of Marx
and Engels.
Soviet Government Publishes Marx
and Engels' Works.
! Only the proletarian revolution in
Russia recognized the need and the
Importance of bringing out scien-
tific edition of the writings of Marx
and Engels; and the Marx-Engels
Institute, established and financed
at great sacrifice by the Soviet Gov
eminent and maintained by the Rus
sian workers with great love and
devotion, has begun the publication
of the international edition of the
works of Marx and Engels, which
will comprise SO volumes. Thus
only after as years had passed since
Marks death, and thanks only to
the Soviet Government, we are be-
ing given for the first time COM
plete and authentic edition OF the
writings of Marx and Engels.
Lenin's Works Published Without
! Delay.
We find happier situation in the
case of Lenin' literary heritage. 1t
is only six years since Lenin died,
and ~lready we have more than half
of the scientific edition of his Col
lected Works published in the Rus
sian language, and good start has
been made with the publication of
these works in German, French and
English. The Lcnin Institute,
founded in 1928 by the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union, when
Lenin was already critically i'll, has
managed in these few years to col
lect all Lenin's writings and to pre-
pare for publication an edition Of 30
volumes, containing Lenin's writings
over a period of 80 years (1S93-1923l.
1t was not an easy task to collect
all Lenin's writings; not only was
he prolific writer, but most Of his
writings consisted of articles for the
press, drafts of resolutions, pro-
grams, etc., correspondence with
comrades with whom he was in con-
slant touch.
Lenin wrote only two large books:
The Development Of Capitalism in
Russia and Materialism and EmpiriO-
Criticism. A large number of smaller
books of brochures also belong to
his pen, including such famous writ
ings as Who Are the "Friends of the
people?" What Is to Be Done? So
cialism and War with Zinoviev),