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
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