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Something of interest on the BBC: a wireless programme on Helen MacFarlane; available for a week via the BBC website < http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nzltg >. Details on Dave Black's book on MacFarlane can be found at < https://rowman.com/ISBN/978-0-7391-0864-2 > and < http://www.libr.org/isc/articles/21/18.pdf >. Paul F ++++++++++++++++++++++ Helen MacFarlane was a radical journalist, admired by Karl Marx, who was the first translator of the Communist Manifesto into English. But why did she vanish from history? It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a period drama must be in want of a feisty heroine who finds love at last. But our heroine, Helen Macfarlane was no fictional character and her life would have shocked Jane Austen's smocks off. Helen was the very first translator of the Communist Manifesto. Not the one we know today, but a version that carries her own unique voice. Her version begins: "A frightful hobgoblin stalks throughout Europe. We are haunted by a ghost, the ghost of Communism..." More at < http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-20475989 > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
