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Dave Conant - MO's avatar

That's also true and my German isn't good enough to read the original, but Lenin is much clearer in his contributions.

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R Mercer's avatar

Which is interesting because most translations of Russian are as bad or worse than translations from German, in my experience (I could read both at one time, but haven't done that much over the last few decades)

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Dave Conant - MO's avatar

Possibly because Lenin's writings were translated into German first? I think he was just a more organized thinker than Marx and he was certainly the more practically oriented of the two.

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