Hal Draper
Hal Draper ( born September 19, 1914 in Brooklyn, † 26 January 1990 in Berkeley, California ) was an American socialist, Marxist researcher, author and translator.
His most famous works are the four-volume study Karl Marx 's Theory of Revolution, along with its shorter essay The Two Souls of Socialism, in which he defines authoritarian and anti- authoritarian socialism variants of each other. In addition, he created a new translation of the poetry of Heinrich Heine into English.
In the U.S., he was a member of the following organizations ::
- Young People's Socialist League
- Socialist Workers Party (1938-1940)
- Workers Party later renamed the Independent Socialist League (1940-1958)
- Socialist Party of America (1958-1964)
- Berkeley Free Speech Movement in 1964
- Independent Socialists (1964-1968)
- International Socialists (1968-1971)
Works
- Jim Crow in Los Angeles. Los Angeles 1946.
- Berkeley: The New Student Revolt. New York 1965.
- The two souls of socialism. Berkeley in 1966.
- Zionism, Israel, & the Arab: the historical background of the Middle East tragedy. Berkeley in 1967.
- The Dirt on California: Agribusiness and the University. Berkeley in 1968.
- The mind of Clark Kerr, his view of the university factory & the 'new slavery '. Ann Arbor in 1969.
- Karl Marx 's Theory of Revolution ( 4 vol ). New York from 1977 to 1989.
- The Marx - Engels Chronicle; a day - by-day chronology of Marx and Engels' life and activity. New York 1985. ISBN 0-8052-3909- X
- Marx- Engels Register: A Complete Bibliography of Marx and Engels' Individual Writings. New York 1985.
- The " dictatorship of the proletariat " from Marx to Lenin. New York 1987.
- Socialism from below. Edited by E. Haberkern. Atlantic Highlands in 1992. ISBN 0391037323
- War and revolution: Lenin and the myth of revolutionary defeatism. Edited by E. Haberkern. Atlantic Highlands in 1996. ISBN 0391040022
Translations and adaptations
- Writings on the Paris Commune / Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels. Ed. by Hal Draper. New York 1971.
- Complete Poems of Heinrich Heine / a Modern English Version by Hal Draper. Boston 1982. ISBN 3518030620
- The Annotated Communist Manifesto. Alameda in 1988. ISBN 0916695069