1848+: Last and First Men

http://www.marxmail.org/msg64557.html
… have completed adding Hilferding’s ‘Finance Capital’ to the Marxist Internet Archive.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/hilferding/1910/finkap/index.htm
The archive also carries Kautsky’s review of the book:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1911/xx/finance.htm
… Kautsky’s article on Hilferding’s mistake on money (translated by MIAer Daniel Guido) …
http://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1912/xx/gpcc.htm
… and Lenin’s notes on the book:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/ni-theta/hilferd.htm
Happy Bastille Day reading …

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