Marx in the 2020s: The New Translation of Capital Vol. 1

Name: Marx in the 2020s: The New Translation of Capital Vol. 1
Start: 2025-11-05T16:30:00+0000
End: 2025-11-05T19:00:00+0000

05 November 2025

Paul North (Yale)

The new translation of Marx's Capital, vol. 1, published in 2024 by Princeton University Press, relaunches Marx's seminal text in a clear modern English prose style that skilfully recovers the wit, rigour and intellectual adventure of Marx's German masterpiece. Paul North (Yale) co-edited the new edition and will be speaking on why Marx's anger, indiscipline, and creativity are so essential for an understanding of the state of capitalist economies around the world in the 2020s. There will be 4 short responses to his talk.

Respondents

Sophia Buck (Lincoln/MML): "The Dialectics of Translation: Activist (Anglo-)Marxism and Marxology"
Bernhard Malkmus (New/MML): "Metabolic Demiurgy: Marx in an Age of Polycrisis"
Benjamin Morgan (Worcester/MML): "Individual Choices: Marx, Menger, and the Marginal Revolution"
Yizhou Sun (Humboldt, Berlin), "Marxist theodicy: Official Monopoly on Translation and its effects in China"