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[Faith Lienhard]

MarxEngels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) is the largest collection of the writing of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in any language. It is an ongoing project intended to produce a critical edition of the complete works of Marx and Engels that reproduces the extant writings of both authors in books of high-quality paper and library binding.

Being a scholarly and academic, historical-critical (historisch-kritische) edition, most MEGA volumes consist of separate text and appendix books, the latter giving additional information on the edited text.[1] All material in MEGA is edited in the original language, resulting in mostly German- but also a considerable quantity of English- as well as French-language texts.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, publishing of MEGA was transferred to the Internationale Marx-Engels-Stiftung (IMES) in Amsterdam.[2] The volumes are printed and bound by Walter de Gruyter in Berlin.[3] The project is presently being overseen by Gerald Hubmann.[4]

Sixty-five volumes of MEGA have been published so far.[5] All volumes containing writings related to Das Kapital have been published. Most recently a text volume and accompanying apparatus volume containing Marx's ecological writings was published. The entire project is expected to be 114 volumes in total.[5]

In the 1920s and 1930s a first MEGA or MEGA1 began being published by the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow under the direction of David Riazanov, a Marxist scholar and revolutionary. MEGA1 was originally intended to comprise 42 volumes, of which 12 volumes were published between 1927 and 1935.[6][7] After Riazanov who edited the first five volumes of MEGA was removed as director of the Marx-Engels Institute in February 1931, Vladimir Adoratsky took his place as editor and published the next seven volumes.[8] By the mid 1930s, MEGA1 was silently discontinued.[6]

A second attempt undertaken in the 1960s and continued to this day.[9] The cooperation between German and Soviet editors, new editorial guidelines and innovative concepts led to the publication of a first sample volume in 1972, followed by the first volume of the new, second MEGA (or MEGA2) in 1975.[6]

The IMES is an international network of the International Institute of Social History, the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW), the Karl-Marx-Haus (KMH) of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Trier, the Russian State Archive for Social/Political History (RGA) and the Russian Independent Institute for the Study of Social and National Problems (RNI), the latter two in Moscow.[2] The main task of the IMES is to continue the publication of the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe.

In 2015 the Gemeinsame Wissenschaftskonferenz (federal science conference) of the German federal states and the German national government decided to continue funding the publication of MEGA, albeit in a newly conceptualized form: All the letters in the third section of MEGA from 1866 to 1895 (from volume III/14 onwards) and large parts of the fourth section will only be published digitally in the future.

SDU 8 is the third 32-million-gallon capacity, mega-volume SDU to be built by liquid waste contractor Savannah River Remediation (SRR) at SRS. Mega-volume SDUs stand 43 feet high and 375 feet in diameter.

SDU 8 work has moved past preparing the site and installing a mudmat. SRR is now setting rebar in preparation for placing the two-foot-thick foundation slab, the step that moves the work on the cell to the construction phase.

Mega-volume SDU design and construction is based on the first successful mega-volume SDU, SDU 6, which entered into operation in August 2017. Construction of the SDU 7 cell is complete, and it is currently being internally lined to protect the concrete and provide a robust leak tightness barrier.

All SDU work is being executed safely with detailed plans and protocols in place to meet all federal and South Carolina state requirements for COVID-19 controls. Worker participation and management review of ongoing safety practices and protocols is keeping workers safe.

Work leading up to cell construction included a large excavation and the installation of a lower mud mat on SDU 8, followed by installation of the high-density polyethylene liner and then an upper mud mat. SDU 8 will be pieced together by placing 25 walls around 208 columns that support the one-foot-thick roof, then wrapped with nearly 350 miles of reinforcing cable.

Our state and our country are in dire need of an infrastructure stimulus specifically designed to put people back to work quickly, notably low-income workers and people of color. The infrastructure that these jobs will build should lay the foundation for the future success of our communities as healthy places that have thriving, low-carbon economies and are resilient to future disasters.

A traditional stimulus that reinforces the status quo won't cut it and will only exacerbate the problems that have made this pandemic so painful. To do recovery right, a stimulus instead needs to focus on large numbers of smaller distributed projects that will reliably and quickly get people to work and streamline the processes that get in the way of starting those projects. It needs to create jobs of the future that will lead to good careers, especially for those who have been hit the hardest. California and the Bay Area need a stimulus that will leave our most vulnerable communities healthier and more resilient to disasters. We must avoid spending one dime on projects that will leave us sicker, more polluted and more vulnerable. As governments face massive budget deficits, they must be laser-focused on the cost-effectiveness of the stimulus projects they fund and ensure that they don't require massive operating support that can't be sustained.

Most importantly, programs of smaller distributed projects take less time to deliver, so all the jobs are created when they are needed most: when the economy is at its lowest trough and unemployment is at its peak. Large megaprojects would take years to plan and complete, so the jobs created would be spread out over many years, with many jobs delayed until the economy had returned to strength. Quickly finishing programs of smaller distributed projects would also front-load all the other benefits they generate (whether it's access to broadband or safe walking access to the grocery store) for when they are most needed to restart the economy during the depths of the recessions.

The core goal of a stimulus is to put people to work fast. As the region ramps up spending on infrastructure projects, state and local governments must also streamline their delivery so that jobs are created as quickly as possible. Every dollar saved in unnecessary costs is equivalent to one additional dollar of stimulus funding that can help put people back to work.

From a regulatory perspective, this involves streamlining project approvals, government procurement and project funding processes. To save hundreds of millions of dollars and years of potential delay in getting projects out the door, the state should grant California Environmental Quality Act exemptions to sustainable transportation projects (new sidewalks, bike lanes, bus facilities or rail upgrades) on existing streets and rail. Eliminating permits for standard residential and commercial rooftop solar, solar storage and electric vehicle charging infrastructure would increase the volume of projects and the speed at which they could be deployed, providing a significant jobs boost. Allowing a 50% density bonus for affordable housing projects could transform the number of affordable housing units that are built. The stimulus should be accompanied by this regulatory modernization and streamlining.

From a project management perspective, project sponsors for programs of distributed projects should adopt more standardized engineering, design and cost estimation practices and should rely on existing contracts or cooperative contracting arrangements. For example, local governments should empower agency staff to deliver the infrastructure for approved bike and pedestrian plans, using national best-practice standards from an organization like the National Association of City Transportation Officials, rather than putting each intersection through a lengthy design and public approval process. The stimulus should incentivize local governments to adopt these best practices.

Importantly, it is more straightforward to put regulatory and project management changes in place for smaller projects than for larger ones. A large port expansion, for instance, will always require significant environmental and public process during its entitlement phase. This is not the case for upgrading tens of thousands of miles of old and unsafe pipes to guarantee safe drinking water to communities around the state. Similarly, there is little that can be standardized when upgrading highway interchanges, which are each complex and unique, but much can be standardized in building bike lanes and pedestrian safety improvements.

Fundamentally, the stimulus money must also help us fight the greatest threats to our future, including inequities resulting from an economy that benefits the few and the ravages of the climate crisis.

The visionary investments to address these grave challenges are just the type of investments that should be included in a stimulus: ones that would generate a healthier, lower-carbon future for California.

Deep investments in publicly available electric vehicle charging networks and hydrogen fueling infrastructure would generate good jobs fast and would significantly reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Major investments in affordable housing near transit (yes, we need to think of affordable housing as infrastructure) and in creating walkable communities would generate good jobs quickly and would significantly reduce growth in air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and congestion, as residents would not need to drive as frequently. It would also deliver life-changing support to those who have been most left behind by the economic boom and most affected by the pandemic: low-income households, seniors and those experiencing homelessness. SPUR has estimated that in the Bay Area alone, there is a need for 1.2 million affordable housing units. These will be far less expensive to build through stimulus funding during a downturn than during boom times.

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