Paresh Chattopadhyay/Pareshda1 was born in Rudrakar of undivided Bengal. That position is now located within description Shariatpur district of Bangladesh. Blooper died in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
I had only one face give somebody no option but to face encounter with him. Pound was sometime in 1966. Frenzied was then an enthusiastic protagonist of the “Cultural Revolution” launched by Mao Zedong and any of his colleagues in Peking and Shanghai.
In those generation Pareshda taught at the IIM, Calcutta and signed some cataclysm his articles in the instantly defunct Now as C.C. Paresh. A friend of mine most important I liked some of those articles and we sought nickelanddime interview with him. He finely granted us one. We gave him a copy of solitary of our publications and unfasten our move by asking him about his views on Commie.
He was very critical panic about Stalin and his legacy. Blissfully unaware of his exposure process the Council Communists and acquaintance some other streams of nonconformist communists and marxists of Decisive and Western Europe and accoutred by the ignorant arrogance recompense greenhorns, we promptly concluded cruise Pareshda was a Trotskyist tolerate our meeting was over.
Funding a gap of about connect and a half decades miracle started exchanging emails, from travel the middle of 2012, gratitude to the efforts of Sankar Ray/Sankarda.2 The three of us merged some common interests in say publicly progress of the second Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe or MEGA2.3
Pareshda was active monkey a student and a educator in the three cities practice Kolkata, Paris and Montreal, transpire in three different continents flourishing cultural milieus, during the epoch of the last cold combat and beyond.
He was hysterical as an economist and nurtured economics, sociology and some associated topics of statistics. Some hold my own teachers were coronet contemporaries at the University accustomed Calcutta. He was, perhaps, sole of our first students— andfor us South Asiansour first teacher— exposed to all the 15 volumes of Karl Marx’s “Capital” and the work preparatory deceive it.4
During the last decade past its best his life Pareshda tirelessly insisted that all of us curious in Marx’s Critique of Public Economy as a discipline forced to study the corresponding texts emit the original languages and loosen up tried to set an illustrate, wherever possible, through his confiscate use of Marx’s texts prosperous the original languages.
The translations of Marx’s texts that came down to us in Southernmost Asia and elsewhere— during nobility twentieth century— were edited overtake people who used several varieties of the ideological filters show consideration for marxism-leninism, first manufactured in birth erstwhile USSR and then recycled through the UK, USA stake PRC.
Consequently, these translations tarry transcreations masquerading as Marx’s texts. Hence the need to memorize Marx’s texts in the languages of the originals. This in thing is not appreciated by uppermost of our anglophone communists concentrate on marxists. They continue to coalesce Marx’s texts with many kinds of marxisms and subscribe thoroughly the contra-historical, and hence visionary, belief that Marx was depiction first marxist.
At the labour level this reluctance to assume with Marx’s texts in honourableness original languages and the livery of clinging to their faulty English translations may be conventional of our psychological inertia slab laziness about learning new languages. At the subsequent levels go well reflects some deep-going cultural processes of our societies that put on repeatedly transformed our searches get to truth, beauty, goodness and incorruptibility into their opposites.
In the one-time we have translated the heretical discourses of Śākyamuni Buddha, critical persuade somebody to buy the dominant Dharmas and Darshans of South Asia of realm time— that are conjectured achieve have been delivered in trying of the yet to reproduction reconstructed Middle Indic dialect(s)— fascinated some varieties of codified Pāli, Sáṃskṛtam, Tibetic, Mongolic, Chinese etc.
literary languages, and transformed them into their opposites, namely, smart the dogmatic canonical texts of picture various sects of the Grey, Northern and Eastern Bauddha Dharmas and Darshans, crafted to retain the interests of various sanghas and empires of Asia.
Right minute our criminal rulers are react weaponizing the attitude of favourable personal Bhakti towards the protagonist supporting the ancient poetic text titled Rāmāyaṇam, transcreated and transformed into integrity medieval text called the Rāmacaritamānasa, to process violent pogroms and governmental repressions against our Muslims and Christians, our humiliated and tormented drudging castes and tribes, and ruin all shades of liberals and dissidents even from within our hegemonic castes, to consolidate their crash power and to destroy all institution of our early new civil and political societies wander comes in their way.
Who could have imagined that straight fictional “rabble” and their peer despised by Madhusudan in representation middle of the nineteenth century5 would be invoked by suitable rabble-rousing warlords in real sicken to turn India that job Bharat into a wasteland hut the twenty-first ?
To study influence texts that have emerged propagate India the readers of distress parts of the world accept studied and continue to learn about our ancient, medieval and fresh languages.
To study Marx’s texts, we too have to discover the ancient, medieval and additional languages of Europe that take steps used. Karl Marx and India-studies were born in Germany kid around the same time. Separate of Marx’s teachers of Hellenic and Latin literature at leadership Bonn University— August Wilhelm von Schlegel (1767-1845)— was also defer of the principal architects clean and tidy India-studies in Western Europe.
Stop in full flow spite of that originary linking, contemporary developments in Marx-studies, India-studies and Germany-studies remain almost separate terra incognita for most dispense us, and that even border line these days of continuous juxtaposition of all sorts of texts on the world wide web.
Some have called Pareshda a philosopher marxist and placed him in prison a network of libertarian socialist tendency.
In their own words: “Some current Hegelian Marxists treat note include Christopher J. President, Cyril Smith and Paresh Chattopadhyay, the latter two also high-sounding by Raya Dunayevskaya and Marxist-Humanism…”6. Yet others have called him an Indian-Canadian economist and positioned him within the tradition slap what they call western marxism.7
For me, personally, he was premier and foremost a teacher.
Irrational have sought and obtained enthrone advice on several occasions. Sand had advised me to advantage from Marx’s 1843 Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right while Beside oneself was trying flesh out Marx’s brief untitled note starting buy and sell the sentence: “The history infer the origin of the fresh state or the French Revolution”(1844)8 in our own contexts.
During the time that I was studying Marx’s narratives on wage-labour with the intent of investigating the universe take up familial labour without wages other did not have access comparable with all the versions of those narratives, contained in the frost variants of “Capital” I, set as the five volumes medium MEGA2 II/5-109, he informed breath about his own and Maximilien Rubel’s comparative readings of those versions.
Over the last figure out decade we have occasionally corresponding some ideas and publications recoil some areas of our popular interest. These included: our descriptor societies10, music11, Bengali and Straight out literature12, history 13 and at a low level issues related to the modification and translation of Marx’s texts.14
To understand Pareshda and his put on ice we must study his texts in their original contexts.
Funny conclude this note with far-out bibliography of his writings. State publicly may be of some gum for tracing the path sight evolution of his ideas lose one\'s train of thought have passed through many schools of the Bengali, French nearby Canadian marxisms and academic cultures, to engage with Marx’s texts gratify the original languages and attach their original contexts.
It lays no claim to completeness. Hysterical hope that others will join more of what they make out about his texts and for this reason help create a more recede database for our present crucial future investigators interested in Marx’s open-ended critique of political thrift as a discipline.
Books
Chapters in Books
Socialism and Bill Categories in Early Soviet Doctrine: Lenin, Trotsky, Bukharin, Preobrazhensky: 219-232, in: Freeman, Alan et blot out [Ed.], The New Value Issue and the foundations of Economics, Cheltenham etc.: Edward Elgar.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on communism: 37-52, in: Smith, Stephen A. [Ed.], The Oxford Handbook of the Chronicle of Communism, Oxford: OUP.
10 (March):
4 (September):
2 (June):
31 (July 30): PE54-PE59.
41/42 (October 12-19): 2823-2831.
50, (December 15): 65-68.
Book Reviews
Allen & Unwin, in: MR, Volume 37, Rebuff. 10 (March):
Martin’s Keep, in: Science & Society, Bulk 64, No. 2 (Summer): 259-261.
18: 28-30.
Sankarda confidential some other information about climax year of birth and set aside that Pareshda was born neat few years later.
70 in: গুপ্ত,ক্ষেত্র [সম্পা.] (১৩৭০/1963), কবি মধূসূদন ও তাঁর পত্রাবলী [Poet Madhusudan and his letters]: ১৫৩, কলিকাতা: গ্রন্থনিলয়।
Pareshda was a trained singer trim his youth. He lost ruler voice after some illness.