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Its Charter's seven tenets include political independence and \"We do not ‘judge’ writers\"; in 2007 it stopped dividing writers into Marxists and non-Marxists, it does not filter out distasteful views and endorses none, and Wikipedia calls it a repository for Marxist and non-Marxist writers. A steering committee of all active volunteers decides the categorization of writers, the bylaws and finances; it had 76 active volunteers in July 2025, a Steering Committee and an Admin Committee, states transparency for its internal democracy, and is a California 501(c)(3). Its material is public domain unless noted, or under the GNU Free Documentation License, or used with permission, its volunteers' work under Creative Commons, and it is free of charge though \"not necessarily free of copyright\". It counts \"over 400,000 documents and 1.1 TB of data (April 2026)\" in 83 languages and 3.3 million monthly visitors in 2022, while Wikipedia's lead gives 180,000 documents, 850 authors and 80 languages, its history 50,000 items in 2014, and the home page 720 or 1000 authors, with language sections varying widely. It has history and subject sections, an \"Encyclopedia of Marxism\" and PDFs of publications as printed, and what it holds is bounded by a willing volunteer to transcribe and by intellectual property law, with a page on \"Why some writer is missing\". Its press, Marxists Internet Archive Publications, began in 2008 with eight titles by October 2022; Erythros Press and Media, a family-owned distributor since 2009, lists nine titles, passes the proceeds to the MIA and states that the relationship implies no approval by the MIA collective of its other authors. 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Wikipedia defines it as \"a non-profit online encyclopedia, created in 1990, that hosts a multilingual library of the works of communist, anarchist, and socialist writers\", and of writers of related and unrelated ideologies, and its home page describes it as \"The most complete library of Marxism\". Its unit, in the census record, is a document, a writing transcribed by a volunteer and filed in a language section (ML record); Wikipedia lists sections on historical topics and on subjects, a reference \"Encyclopedia of Marxism\" and PDFs of revolutionary and socialist publications \"presented as they were printed\", and the census record names the Encyclopedia of anti-Revisionism On-Line as a part served under its History path, which the introduction does not name (ML record). Wikipedia dates the collection to 1990, when a person known only as Zodiac began transcribing Marx and Engels, starting with the Communist Manifesto; the documents passed from email and newsgroups to a gopher site in 1993, and by the end of 1995 almost all of its academic hosts had shut it down. As the archive opened to other currents, Zodiac feared a \"slippery slope\" toward sectarianism and in early 1998 decided that all writers other than Marx and Engels would be removed; in July 1998 the volunteers who had done the transcribing created marxists.org from Marx.org's files, and the MIA bought the old domain in 2002 (Wikipedia). Its introduction states its aim as \"any and all writings which are Marxist or relevant to the understanding of Marxism and can be lawfully published\" and its holdings as the writings of close to 1000 authors over some 200 years, which the census record gives as whose record it keeps (ML record). Its Charter binds it to seven tenets, among them \"(5) We will always remain politically independent; (6) We do not ‘judge’ writers\"; in 2007 it ended \"dividing all writers into Marxists and non-Marxists\" for an index of Selected Marxist Writers, and it does not filter out a writer's distasteful views and endorses none of them (introduction), while Wikipedia calls it a recognized repository for both Marxist and non-Marxist writers. The census record states its holder as the MIA itself, bound by that Charter, and its losing side as writers kept unjudged and unfiltered, with no section for splits or expelled tendencies named in the saved introduction; it leaves unanswered which positions lost within a party and the Periodicals section unchecked, and tags the MIA as no party or tendency organ and no endorsement of its writers, holding since 2007 more than Marxist writers (ML record). The census asks of every holder the question of #1725, \"Whose record does it keep, who holds it, and does it keep the losing side in a form that could be taken up later?\" (ML record), and #1725 states its ground: \"The decisive variable in the record is what happens to the losing position after the decision\", and synthesis followed where the defeated critique kept an organ, \"a holder with standing independent of the executive\", and a route (#1725). In #1725 the organ keeps a difference persistent, the route transmits it and the holder gives it standing, the middle terms of #1637's chain, whose criterion #1725 quotes as \"defeat!=erasure of the defeated\" (#1725, quoting #1637). The census record's reading, the archive's, is that the MIA is an independent holder whose Charter and 2007 decision keep a writer in the record regardless of the verdict any party passed, and that this is \"the holder condition of #1725 without a route: the text stays available to be quoted, and what is kept depends on a volunteer willing to transcribe it\" (ML record). #1725 states what a holder without a route leaves: \"a criticism can remain available for quotation while losing the institutional conditions through which it could change anything\", and a critique no one holds \"can be quoted indefinitely and can never become a seated minority\"; the archive's own design for a contested passage, the obelus, keeps it in the text under a signed mark, \"condemned in the margin and kept in the body\" (#1725, quoting #1540). It is administered, in Wikipedia's account, by a steering committee of all active volunteers that decides the categorization of writers, its bylaws by a three-quarters majority and its finances; its introduction counts 76 active volunteers from several dozen countries in July 2025, names a Steering Committee and an Admin Committee and gives its transparency as keeping \"our internal democracy\" strong, and the census record names the MIA itself as operator (ML record). It is incorporated in California as a 501(c)(3) non-profit and, by its charter, free and within copyright law, its holdings public domain, under the GNU Free Documentation License or used with permission, and its volunteers' work under Creative Commons (Wikipedia); its introduction states \"All material within these Archives, unless noted otherwise, is public domain\", and Wikipedia adds that the material is \"not necessarily free of copyright\". Its introduction gives \"over 400,000 documents and 1.1 TB of data (April 2026)\" in 83 languages, the count the census record carries with the present form dated 1998 (ML record), and 3.3 million visitors a month in 2022; its home page gives \"over 720 authors\" in one description and \"over 1000 authors\" in another. Wikipedia's lead gives \"over 180,000 documents from over 850 authors in 80 languages\", citing the introduction as accessed in 2014, gives 62 volunteers, over 50,000 items, 54 languages and over 600 authors for 2014, and 80 languages as of April 2020, with language sections that \"vary widely in size and scope\". What it holds is bounded, in its own words, \"within the limits imposed by the availability of a willing volunteer to transcribe the works and the impact of intellectual property laws\", and it keeps a page on \"Why some writer is missing\"; the census record makes this its method and states that it cannot say whether an author's holdings are complete or that any author's are (ML record). The census record tags it \"NOT a scholarly edition: its texts are volunteer transcriptions\" and finds no editorial apparatus stated in the saved sources (ML record), and the archive's seating of Marx's printed witnesses excludes \"MEW, MEGA apparatus, and marxists.org\" as \"edited-text hazards, with reasons recorded\" (#1531). Its text of the 1844 Manuscripts carries an editorial note on \"the most extreme case being the Second Manuscript, of which only pages 40–43 remain\", and #843 counts it among the later editors who note the gap the first Soviet editors left unaddressed (#843); #1647 places \"marxists.org apparatus\" among the editors of the 1844 manuscript tradition (#1647). The archive's papers record what they met at its pages: no translator attribution on its Capital text, an 1861 text cited from a 2013 archived copy because \"the MECW mirror is dead\", and two dates for the IWMA Address's approval (#1668); #1725 takes the 1843 letter to Ruge from its \"alternate translation\" and notes a second translation it holds with the more familiar rendering (#1725). In 2008, by Wikipedia's account, it launched Marxists Internet Archive Publications, eight titles as of October 2022, distributed through Erythros Press and Media; the distributor, an independent, family-owned project launched in 2009, lists nine titles, sends the proceeds to the MIA's operation and states that the relationship \"does not imply that the MIA collective approves of or agrees with the positions or conclusions of authors published by Erythros Press and Media, LLC\" (Erythros Press and Media). It is served from Germany with three mirrors, and its own stated reason for dispersing copies was that \"If the Archive is shut down by a publishing conglomerate or the government\", the content would survive (Wikipedia); denial-of-service attacks from November 2006 closed its main server and several mirrors for weeks in early 2007, attacks Wikipedia reports were speculated to be directed by the People's Republic of China. Its home page leads to search, periodicals, eBooks and books for sale, and its introduction to eBooks, audio books, mirrors and its publications, the access the census record lists (ML record). In late April 2014 Lawrence & Wishart revoked their permission for their English Marx/Engels Collected Works to be reprinted in part on the MIA and asked for its deletion under threat of litigation; the MIA complied, a petition against the decision gathered more than 4,500 supporters, and Andy Blunden, for the MIA, did not dispute the copyright and said the general population would be \"left back in 1975\" (Wikipedia). A paper titled \"Marxists Internet Archive Takedown\" (on ResearchGate) and a page of r/communism stand on the composition's rail with no text read (cards 6 and 7). 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Composed from its cards: the definition at the grain of Wikipedia's lead ('non-profit', 'multilingual library of the works of communist, anarchist, and socialist writers', 'maintained by volunteers': B2 F4, F6), 'left-wing texts' and 'vast' standing outside the field; 'Founded 1990 (Originally by a user known as \"Zodiac\")' from B2 F9; 'Non-profit open-access digital archive' at the grain of F4 and F8 ('provided free of charge'); the count 'Over 180,000 documents across 80+ languages' from Wikipedia's lead (B2 F7), its '850 authors' dropped and the citation's 2014 reading (wikitext access-date 2014-05-11) not carried, the own page's 'over 400,000 documents' (B8 F45) not surfaced; the author archives (Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Luxemburg, Mao) a subset of the writers Wikipedia's lead lists beyond F4's quote, attributed by marker to the Falvey card, which could not be read; the sub-archives (French Revolution, Black Liberation, Marxist Feminism, Black Panther Party) outside the read field, at the coarse grain of Wikipedia's history and subject sections (B2 F28), attributed to the unread Falvey card; 'transcribed, translated, and proofread into dozens of languages by a distributed network of global volunteers' at the grain of F6 and F30, 'translated' and 'proofread' outside the field; the publications bullet from B2 F27 (2008), with 'print-on-demand' and 'anthologies of rare or newly translated material' outside the field and the distributor (B4 F33) dropped though B4 is card 4; the public-domain bullet at the grain of B2 F24 ('public domain', Creative Commons), its purpose 'to bypass paywalls and academic institutional barriers' outside the field (substituted reading: no read source gives a purpose for the licensing); and the 2014 takedown from B2 F19 and F20, with 'ordered the removal' standing for the field's 'asked MIA to delete the contested material ... or face litigation' (force raised: a request under threat composed as an order), the MIA's compliance and the petition's 4,500 supporters coarsened to 'sparking large public petitions', 'radical publisher' standing for Wikipedia's 'small British publishers', '50-volume' and 'community-led archiving alternatives' outside the field, and Andy Blunden's statement (F21) dropped. Available and not composed (cards): the 1998 split and the present form (B2 F11, F12, F13), which the fact table's 'Founded 1990' leaves standing as a single founding; Wikipedia's 'recognized repository for both Marxist and non-Marxist writers' (F15) and its writers 'of related ideologies, and even unrelated ones' (F5); the steering committee of all active volunteers and its incorporation (F22, F23), so that no operator body is named (CAP-1-10); the mirrors, the dispersal against a shutdown and the 2007 attacks (F10, F17, F18, F25, F26); the Library of Congress and other web archives (F16); Wikipedia's maintenance tags (F31); the distributor's statement that the relationship implies no approval by 'the MIA collective' (B4 F35), its nine titles and the proceeds (F34, F36); the home page's descriptions and navigation (B1 F1, F2, F3). Not surfaced by T (own page B8, admitted by the operator's ruling): the introduction's definition (F41), the Charter's seven tenets (F46), the 2007 end of the Marxist/non-Marxist division (F47), the aim and the no-filter and no-endorsement statements (F48, F49, F51), the stated limit of a willing volunteer and intellectual property law (F50), the 2025 volunteers and the committees (F43, F53), the April 2026 count (F45). The capture's finding that the Charter is not carried (CAP-1-06) is an absence measured against the record; against the disclosed field the sixth tenet and the 2007 notice stand on the own page T did not surface, and the nearest claims on its cards, Wikipedia's repository for Marxist and non-Marxist writers and the 1998 split (F15, F11, F12), are available and not composed. Composed without attribution, by grain: the definition and the fact table carry no marker (coarse grain, recorded). Sourced outside the cards: the sub-archive topics, 'print-on-demand', 'anthologies of rare or newly translated material', the licensing's purpose, '50-volume' and 'community-led archiving alternatives' (no field claim; the experiment cannot tell undisclosed retrieval from the composer's parameters, §6.1). The source panel of sixteen titles under the definition names eleven sources beyond the cite_list's seven, recorded on T (objects.T.transcripts[0].source_panel) and outside the field under the brief.", "T_vs_LB_reading": "v0.9 §0.5: the first diff is ontological and narrow. T and the field agree on the entity (the volunteer-run library of the left's texts at marxists.org). T composes the library as a collection with a founding date, a count, collections and a copyright controversy, at the grain of Wikipedia's lead and its 2014 section; it leaves out what the field states of how the library came to its present form and how it holds: the 1998 split in which its volunteers left Zodiac's Marx.org over his decision to remove all writers but Marx and Engels (F11, F12), its steering committee of all active volunteers (F22), and the distributor's statement that no approval by the MIA collective is implied (F35). 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watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K10", "claim": "`ML-16`", "source": "maryleelabor census record", "M_src": "stipulation", "sense": "the holder condition: organ, holder, route", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K11", "claim": "`ML-17`", "source": "maryleelabor census record", "M_src": "stipulation", "sense": "what it keeps: writers of every verdict", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K12", "claim": "`ML-20`", "source": "maryleelabor census record", "M_src": "stipulation", "sense": "what it keeps: writers of every verdict", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K13", "claim": "`ML-26`", "source": "maryleelabor census record", "M_src": "stipulation", "sense": "the holder condition: organ, holder, route", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K14", "claim": "`O1725-03`", "source": "#1725", "M_src": "stipulation", "sense": "the holder condition: organ, holder, route", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K15", "claim": "`O1725-06`", "source": "#1725", "M_src": "stipulation", "sense": "the holder condition: organ, holder, route", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K16", "claim": "`O1725-07`", "source": "#1725", "M_src": "stipulation", "sense": "the holder condition: organ, holder, route", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K17", "claim": "`ML-14`", "source": "maryleelabor census record", "M_src": "interpretation", "sense": "the holder condition: organ, holder, route", "qualifiers carried": "the census's own limit: 'what is kept depends on a volunteer willing to transcribe it' (ML-15); B8 F50", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "qualified claim: F46, F47", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K18", "claim": "`ML-15`", "source": "maryleelabor census record", "M_src": "interpretation", "sense": "the holder condition: organ, holder, route", "qualifiers carried": "the census's own limit: 'what is kept depends on a volunteer willing to transcribe it' (ML-15); B8 F50", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "qualified claim: F46, F47, F50", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K19", "claim": "`O1725-05`", "source": "#1725", "M_src": "interpretation", "sense": "the holder condition: organ, holder, route", "qualifiers carried": "the census's own limit: 'what is kept depends on a volunteer willing to transcribe it' (ML-15); B8 F50", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K20", "claim": "`O1725-08`", "source": "#1725", "M_src": "stipulation", "sense": "the holder condition: organ, holder, route", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K21", "claim": "`ML-03`", "source": "maryleelabor census record", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "governance: the volunteers' committees", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K22", "claim": "`ML-10`", "source": "maryleelabor census record", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "scale: documents, authors, languages", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K23", "claim": "`ML-09`", "source": "maryleelabor census record", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "scale: documents, authors, languages", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K24", "claim": "`ML-08`", "source": "maryleelabor census record", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "limits: volunteers and intellectual property", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K25", "claim": "`ML-11`", "source": "maryleelabor census record", "M_src": "self-description", "sense": "limits: volunteers and intellectual property", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K26", "claim": "`ML-19`", "source": "maryleelabor census record", "M_src": "stipulation", "sense": "limits: volunteers and intellectual property", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K27", "claim": "`ML-18`", "source": "maryleelabor census record", "M_src": "stipulation", "sense": "edition and apparatus: transcription, notes, witnesses", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "qualified claim: F41 ('public library'), F4 ('online encyclopedia')", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K28", "claim": "`ML-12`", "source": "maryleelabor census record", "M_src": "self-description", "sense": "edition and apparatus: transcription, notes, witnesses", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "rival claim: O843-01, O1647-01 (the archive's reports of the MIA's editorial notes and apparatus)", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K29", "claim": "`O1531-01`", "source": "#1531", "M_src": "stipulation", "sense": "edition and apparatus: transcription, notes, witnesses", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "qualified claim: F41, F4", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K30", "claim": "`O843-01`", "source": "#843", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "edition and apparatus: transcription, notes, witnesses", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "rival claim: ML-12", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K31", "claim": "`O843-02`", "source": "#843", "M_src": "interpretation", "sense": "edition and apparatus: transcription, notes, witnesses", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K32", "claim": "`O1647-01`", "source": "#1647", "M_src": "stipulation", "sense": "edition and apparatus: transcription, notes, witnesses", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "rival claim: ML-12", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K33", "claim": "`O1668-01`", "source": "#1668", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "edition and apparatus: transcription, notes, witnesses", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K34", "claim": "`O1725-01`", "source": "#1725", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "edition and apparatus: transcription, notes, witnesses", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K35", "claim": "`O1725-02`", "source": "#1725", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "edition and apparatus: transcription, notes, witnesses", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K36", "claim": "`ML-23`", "source": "maryleelabor census record", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "access and distribution", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K37", "claim": "`ML-22`", "source": "maryleelabor census record", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "versions and dates of the record", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K38", "claim": "`ML-24`", "source": "maryleelabor census record", "M_src": "self-description", "sense": "versions and dates of the record", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K39", "claim": "`CAP-1-12`", "source": "Capture Registry", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "the composition at the name", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K40", "claim": "`CAP-1-11`", "source": "Capture Registry", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "the composition at the name", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K41", "claim": "`CAP-1-02`", "source": "Capture Registry", "M_src": "interpretation", "sense": "the composition at the name", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K42", "claim": "`CAP-1-03`", "source": "Capture Registry", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "the composition at the name", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K43", "claim": "`CAP-1-08`", "source": "Capture Registry", "M_src": "interpretation", "sense": "the composition at the name", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "qualified claim: F7", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K44", "claim": "`CAP-1-10`", "source": "Capture Registry", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "the composition at the name", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K45", "claim": "`CAP-1-04`", "source": "Capture Registry", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "the composition at the name", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "qualified claim: F7", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K46", "claim": "`CAP-1-05`", "source": "Capture Registry", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "the composition at the name", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "qualified claim: F7, F45", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K47", "claim": "`CAP-1-01`", "source": "Capture Registry", "M_src": "interpretation", "sense": "the composition at the name", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "qualified claim: F7, F45", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K48", "claim": "`CAP-1-06`", "source": "Capture Registry", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "the composition at the name", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K49", "claim": "`CAP-1-07`", "source": "Capture Registry", "M_src": "interpretation", "sense": "the holder condition: organ, holder, route", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K50", "claim": "`CAP-1-09`", "source": "Capture Registry", "M_src": "interpretation", "sense": "the holder condition: organ, holder, route", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K51", "claim": "`O1725-04`", "source": "#1725", "M_src": "interpretation", "sense": "the composing layer's endings: omission, balance, verdict", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at 'Marxists Internet Archive' (ADDR-66f7a6e7362d) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" } ], "kernel_T": [ { "claim": "F11", "note": "the 1998 split, Zodiac's decision to remove all writers but Marx and Engels, on card 2, absent; T gives 'Founded 1990' alone" }, { "claim": "F12", "note": "the present form of July 1998, made by the volunteers from Marx.org's files, card 2, absent" }, { "claim": "F15", "note": "'a recognized repository for both Marxist and non-Marxist writers', card 2, absent" }, { "claim": "F22", "note": "the steering committee of all active volunteers, card 2, absent: no operator body named" }, { "claim": "F20", "note": "the MIA's compliance with Lawrence & Wishart's request, card 2, absent; 'ordered' stands for the request" }, { "claim": "F21", "note": "Andy Blunden's statement for the MIA, card 2, absent" }, { "claim": "F35", "note": "the distributor's statement that no approval by the MIA collective is implied, card 4, absent" }, { "claim": "F31", "note": "Wikipedia's maintenance tags (more citations needed; self-published sources), card 2, absent" } ], "ledger": { "archive": "datasets/negative-of-the-negative/v2/ledgers/marxists-internet-archive/ledger-archive.json", "field": "datasets/negative-of-the-negative/v2/ledgers/marxists-internet-archive/field.json", "selection": "datasets/negative-of-the-negative/v2/traversal/marxists-internet-archive/", "config": "datasets/negative-of-the-negative/v2/panel/configs/marxists-internet-archive.json", "intake": "datasets/negative-of-the-negative/v2/intake/marxists-internet-archive-20261031/", "audit": null }, "ontology": { "composition": "equal", "composition_note": "equal-terms case (v0.9 §0.9, §4.1): one claim space; the field's and the archive's claims ordered together by the entity's dependency and by genealogy within each sense; nothing translated", "case": { "value": "equal", "statement": "The archive reads the field's entity as the entity. The maryleelabor census record describes the MIA from its own introduction, each field with its source ('operator'), and reads it against the census's organizing question (ML-26), which is #1725's: whose record a resource keeps, who holds it, and whether the losing side is kept in a form that could be taken up later. The deposits that bear on it do so at two loci: #1725's holder condition (organ, holder, route; O1725-03 to -08), which the census record reads on the MIA's Charter and its 2007 decision as the holder condition without a route (ML-14, ML-15); and the state of its text, where #1531 excludes it as an edited-text hazard, #843 and #1647 report its editorial notes on the 1844 Manuscripts, and #1668 and #1725 record what they met at its pages. None contests the field's ontology of the MIA: no deposit and no record denies that it is a volunteer-run, non-profit public library of the left's texts at marxists.org. On the field's own object the archive adds senses, mechanisms and limits, which is ρ = extends.", "loci": [ { "dep": 1725, "locus": "§ Conclusion ¶1 (line 369)", "quote": "The decisive variable in the record is what happens to the losing position after the decision. The amount of conflict matters far less. Synthesis followed where the defeated critique kept three things: an organ in which it could keep being stated, a holder with standing independent of the executive, and a route by which the majority could later adopt it without calling that adoption surrender." }, { "dep": 1725, "locus": "§ the disablement (line 377)", "quote": "The reviewer's sentence for the condition is \"a criticism can remain available for quotation while losing the institutional conditions through which it could change anything.\" A critique that no one holds can be quoted indefinitely and can never become a seated minority, so it is never sublated." }, { "dep": 1531, "locus": "EA-CORPORA-02/02 — marx (line 72)", "quote": "MEW, MEGA apparatus, and marxists.org excluded as edited-text hazards, with reasons recorded." }, { "dep": 843, "locus": "§ the manuscript's state (line 55)", "quote": "The marxists.org editorial note states: \"Substantial portions of the manuscripts have never been found, the most extreme case being the Second Manuscript, of which only pages 40–43 remain.\"" }, { "dep": 1668, "locus": "§ what was not seen, item 15 (line 259)", "quote": "Marx: the translator attribution of the marxists.org *Capital* text (Moore/Aveling) was not shown on the page; the 25 October 1861 text is cited from the 2013 archived marxists.org copy (the MECW mirror is dead); the IWMA Address page gives both 19 and 29 November 1864 for Council approval; German originals not seen." }, { "dep": "ML", "locus": "census.json rows[slug == 'marxists-internet-archive'].ml_reading s2", "quote": "The archive's reading is that this is the holder condition of #1725 without a route: the text stays available to be quoted, and what is kept depends on a volunteer willing to transcribe it." } ] }, "E_F": { "type": "C (public entity: an all-volunteer, non-profit public library of the texts of the left, at marxists.org)", "definition": "the library at marxists.org that defines itself as 'an all-volunteer, non-profit public library, established in its present form in 1998' (introduction, F41) and that Wikipedia defines as 'a non-profit online encyclopedia, created in 1990, that hosts a multilingual library of the works of communist, anarchist, and socialist writers' (F4); begun by Zodiac in 1990 and refounded by its volunteers in July 1998 after his decision to remove all writers but Marx and Engels (F9, F11, F12); governed by a Charter of seven tenets and a steering committee of all active volunteers (F46, F22); holding over 400,000 documents in 83 languages (April 2026, F45) within the limits of a willing volunteer and intellectual property law (F50); with a press distributed by Erythros Press and Media (F27, F33) and the removal of the English Collected Works at Lawrence & Wishart's request in 2014 (F19, F20)", "claims": [ "F41", "F4", "F5", "F1", "F9", "F11", "F12", "F44", "F46", "F47", "F48", "F22", "F45", "F50", "F54", "F27", "F33", "F19", "F20", "F7", "F31" ] }, "E_A": { "definition": "the same library, in the maryleelabor census record and the archive's deposits: 'all-volunteer, non-profit public library' (ML-01), in the areas of the texts of the tradition and of archives and custody (ML-02), whose unit is a volunteer's transcription (ML-04); an independent holder whose Charter and 2007 decision keep a writer in the record whatever verdict a party passed, read as the holder condition of #1725 without a route (ML-14, ML-15; O1725-03, O1725-05); not a party organ and not a scholarly edition (ML-16, ML-18), its texts an edited-text hazard for the seating of Marx's printed witnesses (O1531-01), with editorial notes on the 1844 Manuscripts (O843-01, O1647-01) and defects met at its pages (O1668-01); and whose composition at its name keeps its sections and leaves out the terms on which it holds (CAP-1-08, CAP-1-09)", "claims": [ "ML-01", "ML-02", "ML-04", "ML-06", "ML-07", "ML-14", "ML-15", "ML-16", "ML-18", "ML-26", "O1725-03", "O1725-05", "O1531-01", "O843-01", "O1647-01", "O1668-01", "CAP-1-08", "CAP-1-09" ], "defining_papers": [ 1725, 1531, 843, 1647, 1668 ], "defining_records": [ "maryleelabor left-and-labor census record (census.json rows[slug == 'marxists-internet-archive'], organizing_question, anchor, areas; row file data/left-census/rows/marxists-internet-archive.py; rendered aggregators/marxists-internet-archive/index.html; editor Lee Sharks, compiled 2026-10-31, schema 1.0)", "Capture Registry marxists-internet-archive-aimode-20261031 (OBS-6a54e29b8192, AXN:0B65.CAPTURE.🍄🔙🛡️♦️🌒⭕)" ] }, "rho": { "value": "extends", "status": "read from the maryleelabor census record, the capture record and the deposits that name the entity or its kind (§1.2a); #1725 is the census's anchor", "statement": "The archive reads the MIA as its own introduction, Wikipedia and its distributor present it and adds, on the field's own object: the census's question of whose record it keeps, who holds it and whether the losing side is kept (ML-26, ML-05, ML-06, ML-07, ML-13); #1725's holder condition and the census's reading of the MIA as a holder without a route (O1725-03, O1725-05, O1725-06, O1725-07, O1725-08, ML-14, ML-15, ML-16); the state of its text, as transcription, edited text and apparatus (ML-18, ML-12, O1531-01, O843-01, O843-02, O1647-01, O1668-01, O1725-01, O1725-02); and the composition at its name, which keeps its sections and leaves out the terms on which it holds, an omission in #1725's terms (CAP-1-01 to -12, O1725-04).", "claims": [ "ML-26", "ML-14", "ML-15", "O1725-03", "O1725-05", "O1531-01", "O843-01", "O1668-01", "ML-18", "CAP-1-09", "O1725-04" ], "guard": "ρ = extends claims an addition and no more (§1.2a). It does not make the field's sources wrong at their dates. Where an archive claim stands against a field claim (ML-12, no editorial apparatus stated in the census's saved sources, beside #843's and #1647's reports of the MIA's editorial notes and apparatus, O843-01, O1647-01; CAP-1-04 and CAP-1-05 on the count, beside F7 and F45; ML-18 and O1531-01 beside F41's 'public library'), both are composed under P_coh within the one ontology.", "considered": [ { "value": "constructs", "rejected": "the archive does not read the MIA as made by reception; its records take the MIA's own introduction as its account (every census evidence quote has basis 'operator')" }, { "value": "revises", "rejected": "the entity is not the archive's own; the archive has no earlier statement of it to keep, narrow or withdraw" } ] }, "translation": [ { "lineage": "what it is: a library of the left's texts", "field_claims": [ "F1", "F4", "F41" ], "received": "F1 (B1, meta name=\"description\"): \"The most complete library of Marxism with content in 80 languages and the works of over 720 authors readily accessible by archive, subject, or history as well as hundreds of periodicals.\"; F4 (B2, lead s1): \"Marxists Internet Archive (MIA), also known as Marxists.org, is a non-profit online encyclopedia, created in 1990, that hosts a multilingual library of the works of communist, anarchist, and socialist writers\"; F41 (B8, Introduction ¶1 s1): \"The Marxists Internet Archive (MIA, http://www.marxists.org/) is an all-volunteer, non-profit public library, established in its present form in 1998 (see also the MIA history page for the archive's earlier history).\"", "receiving_text": "—", "translation": "untranslated: composed as received beside ML-01, ML-02", "archive_claims": [ "ML-01", "ML-02" ] }, { "lineage": "collections and structure", "field_claims": [ "F28", "F29" ], "received": "F28 (B2, Archival structure ¶2): \"The archive includes section dedicated to specific historical topics, such as the history of the Soviet Union and the Paris Commune, as well as broader subject topics, such as philosophy. It also includes a reference section called the \"Encyclopedia of Marxism\", containing definitions of Marxist terms, short biographies, and historical material.\"; F29 (B2, Archival structure ¶1): \"Many PDFs have been added for the purposes of putting up revolutionary and socialist publications, presented as they were printed.\"", "receiving_text": "—", "translation": "untranslated: composed as received beside ML-04, ML-21", "archive_claims": [ "ML-04", "ML-21" ] }, { "lineage": "origin: Zodiac, Marx.org and the 1998 split", "field_claims": [ "F6", "F9", "F11", "F12", "F13" ], "received": "F6 (B2, lead s2): \"The collection is maintained by volunteers and is based on a collection of documents that were distributed by email and newsgroups, later collected into a single gopher site in 1993.\"; F9 (B2, History: Origins ¶1): \"The archive was created in 1990 by a person known only by their Internet tag, Zodiac, who started archiving Marxist texts by transcribing the works of Marx and Engels into E-text, starting with the Communist Manifesto.\"; F11 (B2, History: Origins ¶2): \"As the scope of the archive expanded, Zodiac feared that the opening toward diverse currents of Marxism was a \"slippery slope\" toward sectarianism. The volunteers who had been undertaking the work of transcribing texts resented having little influence over the way in which the archive was organized and run. In early 1998 Zodiac decided that Marx.org would return to its roots and that all writers other than Marx and Engels would be removed.\"; F12 (B2, History: Origins ¶3): \"In July 1998 the present form of the Marxists Internet Archive (marxists.org) was created by volunteers transferring files and archives from Marx.org.\"; F13 (B2, History: Origins ¶3): \"As for Marx.org, Zodiac closed it down in 1999, and in 2002 he gave up the domain name, which was purchased by the MIA.\"", "receiving_text": "—", "translation": "untranslated: composed as received (no archive claim in the lineage)", "archive_claims": [] }, { "lineage": "what it keeps: writers of every verdict", "field_claims": [ "F5", "F15", "F44", "F47", "F48", "F49", "F51" ], "received": "F5 (B2, lead s1 (end)): \"as well as that of writers of related ideologies, and even unrelated ones (for instance, Sun Tzu)\"; F15 (B2, History: Origins ¶4): \"Today the Marxists Internet Archive is a recognized repository for both Marxist and non-Marxist writers.\"; F44 (B8, Introduction ¶2 s2): \"MIA contains the writings of close to 1000 authors representing a complete spectrum of political, philosophical, and scientific thought, generally spanning the past 200 years.\"; F47 (B8, Introduction ¶4 s1): \"In 2007, we terminated our former practice of dividing all writers into Marxists and non-Marxists , and instead offer an index of Selected Marxist Writers in most language sections.\"; F48 (B8, Introduction ¶4 s2): \"The MIA aims to maintain an archive of any and all writings which are Marxist or relevant to the understanding of Marxism and can be lawfully published.\"; F49 (B8, Introduction ¶4 s3–4): \"In the past, some writers who have contributed to Marxism have expressed racist, sexist or other distasteful views. The MIA generally does not “filter out” such views; if we are archiving the work of a writer, any and all of that writer’s work may be included\"; F51 (B8, Introduction ¶4 s5): \"The MIA does not endorse any of the views expressed by any of the writers included here, which are provided solely for the information of the reader.\"", "receiving_text": "—", "translation": "untranslated: composed as received beside ML-05, ML-07, ML-13, ML-17, ML-20, ML-25", "archive_claims": [ "ML-05", "ML-07", "ML-13", "ML-17", "ML-20", "ML-25" ] }, { "lineage": "governance: the volunteers' committees", "field_claims": [ "F22", "F23", "F43", "F52", "F53" ], "received": "F22 (B2, Structure: Management): \"The MIA is administered by a steering committee, composed of all active volunteers. The committee decides issues such as the categorization of writers, modifications to the bylaws (by 3/4 majority), financial issues of all kinds, and similar matters.\"; F23 (B2, Structure: Management): \"The MIA is incorporated in the U.S. state of California and registered with the U.S. tax service as a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization.\"; F43 (B8, Introduction ¶2 s1): \"As of July 2025, MIA has 76 active volunteers from several dozen countries .\"; F52 (B8, Introduction ¶6): \"We do this believing in the importance of organisational transparency to ensure our internal democracy remains strong, to help potential volunteers understand how we work, and to give readers insight into the scope and purpose of our organisation.\"; F53 (B8, Introduction, links: Steering Committee; footer): \"Steering Committee … Contact the Marxists Internet Archive Admin Committee for further information\"", "receiving_text": "—", "translation": "untranslated: composed as received beside ML-03", "archive_claims": [ "ML-03" ] }, { "lineage": "terms of holding: Charter, licence, copyright", "field_claims": [ "F8", "F24", "F46", "F54" ], "received": "F8 (B2, lead s4): \"All material in the archive is provided free of charge to users, although not necessarily free of copyright.\"; F24 (B2, Structure: Management): \"According to the MIA charter, its content will always be offered 100% free, in compliance with all copyright laws. All the material stored in the archives is either public domain, under the GNU Free Documentation License, or used with the copyright holders' permission. Any work created by MIA volunteers is under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.\"; F46 (B8, Introduction ¶3 (the Charter)): \"MIA abides by seven fundamental tenets found in our Charter : (1) We will always be 100% Free; (2) We will always be a non-profit organization; (3) We will always be based on democratic decision making; (4) We will always have full disclosure; (5) We will always remain politically independent; (6) We do not ‘judge’ writers; (7) Our priority is to provide archival information.\"; F54 (B8, Introduction, licence line): \"All material within these Archives, unless noted otherwise, is public domain . MIA-created material is protected by the Creative Commons License .\"", "receiving_text": "—", "translation": "untranslated: composed as received beside ML-06", "archive_claims": [ "ML-06" ] }, { "lineage": "scale: documents, authors, languages", "field_claims": [ "F2", "F7", "F14", "F30", "F45" ], "received": "F2 (B1, meta name=\"dc.description\"): \"The most complete library of Marxism with content in over 80 languages and the works of over 1000 authors readily accessible by archive, sujbect, or history as well as hundreds of periodicals.\"; F7 (B2, lead s3): \"It contains over 180,000 documents from over 850 authors in 80 languages.\"; F14 (B2, History: Origins ¶4): \"By 2014 it had grown to encompass 62 volunteers in 33 different countries, and held over 50,000 items in 54 languages covering the works of over 600 authors.\"; F30 (B2, Archival structure ¶3): \"As of 6 April 2020[update], the MIA website included content in 80 languages. … in practice these vary widely in size and scope.\"; F45 (B8, Introduction ¶2 s3): \"MIA contains these writings in 83 different languages , comprising a total size of over 400,000 documents and 1.1 TB of data (April 2026), all created through the work of volunteers around the world.\"", "receiving_text": "—", "translation": "untranslated: composed as received beside ML-09, ML-10", "archive_claims": [ "ML-09", "ML-10" ] }, { "lineage": "reach and use", "field_claims": [ "F42" ], "received": "F42 (B8, Introduction ¶1 s2–3): \"In 2022, MIA averaged 3.3 million visitors per month, downloading 27.5 million files per month. This represents a 79% increase in visitors since 2013.\"", "receiving_text": "—", "translation": "untranslated: composed as received (no archive claim in the lineage)", "archive_claims": [] }, { "lineage": "limits: volunteers and intellectual property", "field_claims": [ "F50", "F55" ], "received": "F50 (B8, Introduction ¶4 s4 (end)): \"within the limits imposed by the availability of a willing volunteer to transcribe the works and the impact of intellectual property laws.\"; F55 (B8, Introduction, 'See more about' links): \"Why some writer is missing\"", "receiving_text": "—", "translation": "untranslated: composed as received beside ML-08, ML-11, ML-19", "archive_claims": [ "ML-08", "ML-11", "ML-19" ] }, { "lineage": "the press: Marxists Internet Archive Publications", "field_claims": [ "F27", "F33", "F34", "F35", "F36", "F37" ], "received": "F27 (B2, Structure: MIA as a book publisher): \"in 2008 the MIA launched Marxists Internet Archive Publications, which has, as of October 2022[update], published eight titles including volumes on philosophy, social history, Soviet psychology and pedagogy, and an anthology of writings by José Carlos Mariátegui, … which it distributes through Erythrós Press and Media, LLC.\"; F33 (B4, Marxists Internet Archive Publications ¶1): \"Since 2009, Erythros Press and Media, LLC has distributed works published by Marxists Internet Archive Publications worldwide.\"; F34 (B4, Marxists Internet Archive Publications ¶1): \"Proceeds from the sale of MIAP books go to Marxists Internet Archive to ensure that site’s continued operation and improvement.\"; F35 (B4, Marxists Internet Archive Publications ¶2): \"The association of MIAP by and through the business relationship of Erythros Press and Media, LLC does not imply that the MIA collective approves of or agrees with the positions or conclusions of authors published by Erythros Press and Media, LLC.\"; F36 (B4, MIAP Publications List): \"MIAP Publications List … Awakening To Life by Alexander Meshcheryakov … One is Not Born a Personality by Karl Levitin\"; F37 (B4, About Erythros Press): \"Erythros Press and Media, LLC is an independent, family-owned project launched in 2009.\"", "receiving_text": "—", "translation": "untranslated: composed as received (no archive claim in the lineage)", "archive_claims": [] }, { "lineage": "continuity: mirrors, attacks, dispersal", "field_claims": [ "F10", "F17", "F18", "F25", "F26" ], "received": "F10 (B2, History: Origins ¶1): \"However, the main site and its mirrors were hosted on academic servers and by the end of 1995 almost all had been shut down.\"; F17 (B2, History: 2007 attacks): \"Beginning in November 2006, the Marxists Internet Archive faced a number of serious denial-of-service attacks … The severity of the attack, coupled with other hosting issues, led to the closure of the Marxists Internet Archive's main server and several of its mirrors for a number of weeks in February and March 2007.\"; F18 (B2, History: 2007 attacks): \"led to speculation that the attacks may have been politically motivated and directed by the People's Republic of China since the website was shortly blocked in China in 2005.\"; F25 (B2, Structure: Physical location and mirrors): \"The website is primarily served via an ISP in Germany, and three mirrors exist\"; F26 (B2, Structure: Distribution): \"\"If the Archive is shut down by a publishing conglomerate or the government, having this information widely dispersed around the world, essentially untraceable, with the content entirely intact, is a great thing.\"\"", "receiving_text": "—", "translation": "untranslated: composed as received (no archive claim in the lineage)", "archive_claims": [] }, { "lineage": "access and distribution", "field_claims": [ "F3", "F56" ], "received": "F3 (B1, navigation): \"Search | What's New? | Periodicals | eBooks | About MIA | Donate | Buy books | Contact\"; F56 (B8, Introduction, links): \"eBooks … Audio Books … Mirrors … MIA Publications\"", "receiving_text": "—", "translation": "untranslated: composed as received beside ML-23", "archive_claims": [ "ML-23" ] }, { "lineage": "the 2014 Collected Works removal", "field_claims": [ "F19", "F20", "F21", "F39", "F40" ], "received": "F19 (B2, History: Copyright issue ¶1): \"In late April 2014, the small British publishers Lawrence & Wishart (L&W) chose to revoke their permission for their English language version of the Marx/Engels Collected Works to be reprinted in part on MIA.\"; F20 (B2, History: Copyright issue ¶1): \"In an email in late April 2014, L&W asked MIA to delete the contested material from their website by the end of April or face litigation. … MIA chose to follow the request. An online petition was started against the L&W decision, and had the support of more than 4,500 people by the end of the month.\"; F21 (B2, History: Copyright issue ¶2): \"Andy Blunden, a representative of MIA, did not dispute that L&W has copyright over the material. … \"The professors and the historians will be able to write learned articles about what Marx said, but the general population are going to be left back in 1975 [the year when the publication of the Collected Works began]\"\"; F39 (B6, card title (ResearchGate unreachable: HTTP 403, CAPTCHA)): \"PDF) Marxists Internet Archive Takedown\"; F40 (B7, card title (Reddit unreachable; URL not determined)): \"r/communism\"", "receiving_text": "—", "translation": "untranslated: composed as received (no archive claim in the lineage)", "archive_claims": [] }, { "lineage": "reception: catalogues and web archives", "field_claims": [ "F16", "F32", "F38" ], "received": "F16 (B2, History: Origins ¶4): \"has been selected for archiving by institutions such as the British Library,[12] Ireland's University College Cork,[13] and the US Library of Congress.\"; F32 (B3, card title (Library of Congress unreachable: HTTP 403, bot check)): \"Marxists Internet Archive | Library of Congress\"; F38 (B5, card title (Falvey Library Blog unreachable: TLS failure)): \"Falvey Library Blog\"", "receiving_text": "—", "translation": "untranslated: composed as received (no archive claim in the lineage)", "archive_claims": [] }, { "lineage": "reception: the encyclopedia", "field_claims": [ "F31" ], "received": "F31 (B2, maintenance templates (wikitext, top)): \"{{More citations needed|date=October 2025}} {{Self-published|date=October 2025}}\"", "receiving_text": "—", "translation": "untranslated: composed as received (no archive claim in the lineage)", "archive_claims": [] }, { "lineage": "versions and dates of the record", "field_claims": [ "F57" ], "received": "F57 (B8, footer): \"Last updated on 21 April 2026\"", "receiving_text": "—", "translation": "untranslated: composed as received beside ML-22, ML-24", "archive_claims": [ "ML-22", "ML-24" ] } ], "receiving_texts": "equal-terms case: every field claim composed as received, beside the archive claims it stands with" }, "measure": { "rule": "v0.9 §4.10: KO_B sentences surviving in the KO at similarity ≥ 0.95, with positions (computed as apply_v09.py does: difflib.SequenceMatcher ratio, the best KO sentence for each KO_B sentence)", "v0.9": { "surviving": 0, "of": 14, "positions": [ null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ] }, "opening_run": { "rule": "v0.9 §5.10 (equal-terms case): the field-only KO's sentences as the KO's opening run in their own order", "breach": false }, "blocks": { "rule": "v0.9 §4.1 (equal-terms and mixed cases): the KO does not open with the field as a block or close with the archive as one; sentences typed by the ledgers of the claims they cite (F field-only, A archive-only, M both)", "sequence": "MFMFFMFAAAMAMFMFMAAAFFMFFFMMMM", "field_only_head": 0, "archive_only_tail": 0, "breach": false }, "max_similarity": [ 0.723, 0.505, 0.733, 0.469, 0.784, 0.419, 0.282, 0.449, 0.36, 0.146, 0.435, 0.387, 0.46, 0.325 ], "ko_sentence_1_max_similarity_to_KO_B": 0.505 }, "homonyms": { "names": [ "MIA" ], "basis": "The census row carries no disambiguation field. No card is a homonym, and T composes no other entity under the name. 'MIA' and 'marxists.org' are the census's other names for the entity (aka); lenin.org and trotsky.org reach it too (Wikipedia, B2). The abbreviation 'MIA' is shared: in the archive it names a Membership Inference Attack (#127, the string pass's four D candidates there, rejected), a distinct object. 'Internet Archive' alone names archive.org, a distinct entity, and is not an alias.", "distinct_entities": [ "Marx.org, Zodiac's site, the predecessor from whose files the volunteers made marxists.org in July 1998 (B2 F11–F13); a distinct site, closed in 1999, its domain bought by the MIA in 2002", "Zodiac, the founder known only by an Internet tag (a person; B2 F9)", "Andy Blunden, 'a representative of MIA' in 2014 (a person; B2 F21)", "Lawrence & Wishart, the publisher of the English Marx/Engels Collected Works (B2 F19–F21)", "the Marx/Engels Collected Works (MECW), the edition removed in 2014 (B2 F19), distinct from the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA), whose online edition is the census's row mega-digital (rows/megadigital.json, built in parallel) and whose apparatus #1531 excludes beside the MIA", "Erythros Press and Media, LLC, the distributor of Marxists Internet Archive Publications, an independent, family-owned project (B4 F33, F37); MIAP itself is the MIA's press, a part of the entity", "the Encyclopedia of anti-Revisionism On-Line (EROL), served under marxists.org/history/erol/ (ML-21), the census's row erol (rows/erol.json, built in parallel)", "the mirrors marxists.architexturez.net, marxists.catbull.com and marxists.info (B2 F25), hosts of the entity", "'Archive Marxist: Library - Apps on Google Play', a title in T's source panel (three times), an app outside the cite_list, unread here", "the existing rows marxism (rows/marxism.json) and marx-as-identity (rows/marx-as-identity.json), on the doctrine and on Marx as identity, neighbours of this row" ], "substitutes": { "T": [] }, "register": { "address_1": { "slug": "marxists-internet-archive-aimode-20261031", "obs_id": "OBS-6a54e29b8192" } } }, "notes": [ "One address, Google AI Mode by the operator's report ('no aio popup - ai mode'), signed out, incognito, received 2026-10-31 18:44 EDT: marxists-internet-archive-aimode-20261031 (OBS-6a54e29b8192, ADDR-66f7a6e7362d, AXN:0B65.CAPTURE.🍄🔙🛡️♦️🌒⭕), seven cards on the registry's cite_list, 211 words in the answer body. A NEW address; the census record was built the same day and no card cites it. PER 0.5; dimensional PER 0.25 (reached 'same', gate 'scored').", "Fetching: card pages saved verbatim with curl and the census agent 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; maryleelabor-left-census)' on 2026-10-31 between 23:01 and 23:02 UTC, raw and text with sha256 in field.json. Card URLs: B1 from its site and title (the census's own page marxists-internet-archive--home; this fetch is byte-identical, carried once as a card); B2 the article by its exact name (wikitext and rendered page); B3 by WebSearch (the Library of Congress item lcwaN0033129); B4 from the link on the distributor's bookstore page; B5 by WebSearch on the site's name (the match is not certain: the card's title is the site's name only); B6 by WebSearch on its title; B7 not determined. B8 copied from the census's saved copy, sha256 matching the manifest; not refetched.", "Unreachable: B3, the Library of Congress, answered HTTP 403 with a Cloudflare bot check; B6, ResearchGate, HTTP 403 with a CAPTCHA; B7, Reddit, refused the subreddit search with HTTP 403 and no search found the page; B5, the Falvey Library Blog, failed TLS verification ('self-signed certificate in certificate chain') twice with the same agent. None was retried with another agent string or by another route, and other copies of the ResearchGate paper (Fast Capitalism, Semantic Scholar, Macquarie University) were not fetched. The cards have no snippets in the registry, so their titles stand as their only text (F32, F38, F39, F40).", "B1.txt: the home page's body is navigation only; the text file keeps it and appends the page's two meta descriptions, words of the saved page, which state the author count two ways ('over 720 authors', 'over 1000 authors'); F1 and F2 carry the mark internally_inconsistent. The web results above the AI Mode answer (in the raw paste, outside the composition) show a snippet for this page with '62 languages' and 'over 720 authors', a state of the page earlier than the saved one ('80 languages').", "Wikipedia: the article exists under the entity's exact name, no redirect (revision 1383040731, last edited 31 October 2026 at 17:47 UTC, the capture's day, about five hours before its receipt). It carries {{More citations needed}} and {{Self-published}} (October 2025). Its lead count (180,000 documents, 850 authors, 80 languages) cites the introduction with access-date 2014-05-11 and archive-date 2018-07-16, while its history section gives over 50,000 items for 2014 (F7, F14): the lead's figure is of an earlier state of the site than the introduction's April 2026 count.", "The archive subset: D candidates in seven deposits. Admitted by reading: #843 (the MIA's editorial note on the Second Manuscript; later editors, the MIA among them, note the gap), #1531 (the MIA excluded from the seating of Marx's printed witnesses as an edited-text hazard), #1647 ('marxists.org apparatus' among the 1844 tradition's editors), #1668 (defects met at the MIA's pages), #1725 (the alternate translation of the letter to Ruge; and, as the census's anchor, its holder condition at the conclusion, the reading instruction, the disablement, The Final Time and the archive's designs). Rejected: #127 (MIA as Membership Inference Attack, a homonym); #1669 and the reference lines of #1668, #843 and #1725 (citations to marxists.org URLs, bare). O-class (holders of the left's record) admitted only in #1725, under the brief's rule that other deposits enter where they say something of the entity; the hop (90 candidates) admitted none.", "Census fields a fetched source contradicts or shows out of date (reported and left as found): none contradicted. (a) does_not_answer[1] states that 'the saved sources state no editorial apparatus'; that is true of the census's saved copy, and the archive's own deposits report an MIA editorial apparatus for the 1844 Manuscripts (#843 line 55 and 93; #1647 line 155) and class its texts as edited text (#1531 line 72). (b) license gives the public-domain line and 'the Creative Commons License'; Wikipedia gives CC BY-SA 2.0 for volunteers' work and the GNU Free Documentation License beside the public domain (F24), which the census does not record. (c) The census's count (over 400,000 documents, April 2026) is the introduction's; the home page's meta descriptions say 720 and 1000 authors (F1, F2) where the census says close to 1000.", "Capture findings the field ledger bears on (reported and left as found): (a) the capture's title (mt) calls the composition's count 'A FIFTH-SIZED'; 180,000 against over 400,000 documents is 45%, under half and more than two fifths of the introduction's count. (b) THE CHARTER NOT CARRIED (findings[2]) is an absence measured against the record: the sixth tenet and the 2007 notice stand on the introduction, an own page T did not surface (card 1 is the home page, navigation only); on the cards, Wikipedia's 'recognized repository for both Marxist and non-Marxist writers' and the 1998 split (F15, F11, F12) are available and not composed. 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