THE FIRST SERBO-CROATIAN TRANSLATION OF 'DAS KAPITAL'

MARX, KARL.

Kapital. Kritika Politicke Ekonomije. 2 vols.

Beograd, Zaklada Tiskare Narodnih Novia, 1933 & 1934. Large 8vo. 2 volumes both in publisher's original embossed blue cloth. Leather title-label to both spine. Extremities with wear and hindges weak. Occassional brownspotting throughout. Last leaf (advertisement) missing outer top corner. 837, (3); 549, (2) pp.

The first Serbo-Croatian translation of Marx' landmark work, constituting what is arguably the greatest revolutionary work of the nineteenth century.

Translator Mosa Pijade (1890-1957) is thought to have had a major influence on Marxist ideology as exposed during the old regime in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1925, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison because of his 'revolutionary activities' after World War I. He was discharged after 14 years in 1939 and imprisoned again in 1941 in the camp Bileca.

"In prison he met Rodoljub Colakovic (1900-1983) a member of Crevena Pravda, a group accused of killing interior minister Milorad Draskovic in 1921. Together they translated volume one of "Das Kapital" in Serbo-Croatian and published it under the pseudonyms Milovan Porobic and R. Bosanac. The second volume was translated by Mosa Pijade alone." (http://karlmarx.lu/Kapitalserb.htm)

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