ABSTRACT

The editorial work on the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) indicates that there is no finished masterpiece of Capital, and it reveals that the earlier economic manuscripts are far from being only “preparatory studies” culminating in Capital. To learn more about Marx’ process of research, it is useful to consult all his manuscripts, letters and notebooks. The critical edition focusses on the connections between different passages in all of them; modern technologies offer new possibilities to visualize these connections. This article will present a survey on material presented by MEGA in print and online, and highlight some features and results of MEGAdigital.