The cover of 'Red Chartist' by Helen Macfarlane. Photo: Helen Macfarlane.
Red Chartist
By Helen Macfarlane
It must occasionally happen that translators would rather not work on a particular passage. Perhaps such a thing happened to the Scottish Chartist Helen Macfarlane when she was translating The Communist Manifesto from its original German. She was a socialist with strong religious beliefs, whereas Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels seem to have regarded religion as a dead end.