Erkin Özalp

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Erkin Özalp

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Türkçesi aşağıda (Turkish below)

He was born in Istanbul in 1968. After graduating from Boğaziçi University, Department of Industrial Engineering, he received his master’s degree in Economic Theory from Marmara University. His articles have been published in Marxist journals since 1991. He co-authored many books and translated many works of Marx and Engels into Turkish. His books published by Yordam Kitap are as follows: Teorisyeniniz Devrimciydi: 21. Yüzyılda Marksizm ve Sosyalizm (Your Theorist Was a Revolutionary: Marxism and Socialism in the 21st Century) (2012; second edition in 2021), Gençlerle Baş Başa: Yapay Zekâ (Conversations with Young People: Artificial Intelligence) (2020; second printing in 2023), Devrim Nasıl Yapılır? Dünyada Strateji Arayışları (How to Make a Revolution? Socialist Strategies in Different Countries) (2023; second printing in 2024). The English translation of his last book was published in 2025.

He was among the editors and translators of the Turkish translation of the three volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital from German, which were published by Yordam Kitap in 2011-2015. His other translations into Turkish (mainly from German, a few from English), listed according to their year of first publication, are as follows: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party (1998), Karl Marx, The Class Struggles in France 1848-1850 (2009), Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (2009), Karl Marx, The Civil War in France (2016), Karl Marx, The French Trilogy (2016), Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, On the Gotha and Erfurt Programs (edited and translated by the author, 2017), Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (2018), Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (2019), Karl Marx, Value, Price and Profit (2019), Friedrich Engels, The Housing Question (2020), Friedrich Engels, The Role of Force in History (2020), Friedrich Engels, Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany (2022), Karl Marx, The Poverty of Philosophy (2024).
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1968 yılında İstanbul’da doğdu. Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Endüstri Mühendisliği bölümünden mezun olduktan sonra Marmara Üniversitesi’nde İktisat Teorisi dalında yüksek lisans eğitimi aldı. 1991-2007 yıllarında Dünya Armağan ve Nadir Koraltan imzalarını da kullanarak Marksist teori dergisi Gelenek’te yazdı. Karl Marx’ın Kapital adlı eserinin üç cildinin Almancadan yapılan ve ilk baskıları Yordam Kitap tarafından 2011-2015 yıllarında yayımlanan çevirisinin editörleri ve çevirmenleri arasında yer aldı.

Kitapları: Teorisyeniniz Devrimciydi: 21. Yüzyılda Marksizm ve Sosyalizm (2012; ikinci baskısı 2021’de yapıldı), Gençlerle Baş Başa: Yapay Zekâ (2020; ikinci baskısı 2023’te yapıldı), Devrim Nasıl Yapılır? Dünyada Strateji Arayışları (2023; ikinci baskısı 2024’te yapıldı), How to Make a Revolution? Socialist Strategies in Different Countries (2025).

Çevirileri (ilk basılma tarihlerine göre): Karl Marx-Friedrich Engels, Komünist Parti Manifestosu (1998), Karl Marx, Fransa’da Sınıf Mücadeleleri 1848-1850 (2009), Karl Marx, Louis Bonaparte’ın 18 Brumaire’i (2009), Karl Marx, Fransa’da İç Savaş (2016), Karl Marx, Fransız Üçlemesi (2016), Karl Marx-Friedrich Engels, Gotha ve Erfurt Programları Üzerine (derleyen ve çeviren; 2017), Friedrich Engels, Ütopyadan Bilime Sosyalizmin Gelişimi (2018), Friedrich Engels, Ailenin, Özel Mülkiyetin ve Devletin Kökeni (2019), Karl Marx, Ücret, Fiyat ve Kâr (2019), Friedrich Engels, Konut Sorunu (2020), Friedrich Engels, Tarihte Zorun Rolü (2020), Friedrich Engels, Almanya'da Devrim ve Karşıdevrim (2022), Karl Marx, Felsefenin Sefaleti (2024).