ABSTRACT
Interest in Marx’s Grundrisse was a long time coming in the English-speaking world. The debate about the ‘young’ (1844) and ‘old’ (1867) Marx in the 1950s and 1960s was carried on in ignorance of it. The publication in Moscow of the full German text in 1939-41 had gone unnoticed (the British Library has two copies, and the Library of Congress one, of volume one, the main text of 1939, only). Moreover, its re-publication in 1953 did not occasion any interest in translating it for the English-speaking world.
