ABSTRACT
The Grundrisse erupted onto the Italian scene at the end of the 1970s amidst students’ and workers’ struggles. The first unabridged translation by Enzo Grillo, based on the German edition of 1953, was published by La Nuova Italia as Lineamenti fondamentali della critica dell’economia politica 1857-1858 [Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy 1857-1858] in two separate volumes, the first in 1968 and the second in 1970. After some debate, it was decided that the text should be partitioned at the point where Marx turns from production to circulation, so that the first volume included the 1857 ‘Introduction’, the chapter on money and the section on ‘The Production Process of Capital’, and volume two opened with ‘The Circulation Process of Capital’. The book was reprinted twice, in 1978 and 1997, and enjoyed astonishing success.
