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=== Origins === [[Image:Marx-Engels Archive (navigation screen - September 1996).jpg|thumb|250px| The forerunner of Marxists Internet archive was the Marx-Engels Archive, available on the Internet since 1993.]] 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 [[Karl Marx|Marx]] and [[Engels]] into [[E-text]], starting with the ''[[Communist Manifesto]]''. In 1993 the accumulated text was posted on a gopher site at csf.colorado.edu. Volunteers joined and helped spread and mirror the main archive. However, the main site and its mirrors were hosted on academic servers and by the end of 1995 almost all had been shut down.<ref name="History of MIA">{{Cite web |title=History of MIA |url=http://www.marxists.org/admin/intro/history/index.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140425001640/http://www.marxists.org/admin/intro/history/index.htm |archive-date=2014-04-25 |access-date=September 6, 2009 |website=Marxists Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite mailing list |first=Nathan |last=Newman |url=http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/pkt/1995m06-d/msg00015.htm |title=Marx/Engels WWW Archive – REMOVED (fwd) |archive-url=https://archive.today/20031120155633/http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/pkt/1995m06-d/msg00015.htm |archive-date=2003-11-20 |mailing-list=PKT |date=June 20, 1995}}</ref> By 1996 the website, Marx.org, was hosted by a commercial [[internet service provider|ISP]]. This was followed by an increased activity from the volunteers. In the following years, however, a conflict developed between the volunteers working on the website and Zodiac, who retained control of the project and domain name. 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.<ref name="History of MIA"/><ref name="Marxism on the Web">{{Cite magazine |last=Empson |first=Martin |date=January 2005 |title=Marxism on the Web |url=https://www.isj.org.uk/index.php4?id=61&issue=105 |url-status=live |magazine=[[International Socialism (magazine)|International Socialism]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150218071356/http://www.isj.org.uk/index.php4?id=61&issue=105 |archive-date=2015-02-18 |number=105}}</ref> In July 1998 the present form of the Marxists Internet Archive (marxists.org) was created by volunteers transferring files and archives from Marx.org. This led to a further increase in activity and an enlargement of the scope of the archive. 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.<ref name="History of MIA"/><ref name="Marxism on the Web"/> Along with marxists.org, the MIA can be reached by two other domain names: lenin.org and trotsky.org. The site, and the group of volunteers working on it, has dramatically changed since its early beginnings. 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Introduction |url=http://www.marxists.org/admin/intro/main.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160908132241/http://www.marxists.org/admin/intro/main.htm |archive-date=2016-09-08 |access-date=September 6, 2009 |website=Marxists Internet Archive}}</ref> Today the Marxists Internet Archive is a recognized [[Disciplinary repository|repository]] for both Marxist and non-Marxist writers.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kelly |first=Mills |year=2003 |title=Marxists Internet Archive |url=http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/r/39/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110917191753/http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/r/39/index.html |archive-date=2011-09-17 |website=World History Sources |publisher=George Mason University's Center for History and New Media |location=Fairfax County, Virginia, USA}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Sullivan |first=Stefan |title=Marx for a Post-Communist Era |publisher=[[Routledge]] |year=2002 |isbn=978-0415201933 |page=173}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |first1=Nestor |last1=Kohan |first2=Pier |last2=Brito |title=Marxismo para principiantes: Leer a Marx desde el Siglo XXI |publisher=Era Naciente |location=Buenos Aires |year=2007 |page=191}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |publisher=Departamento de Filosofía, [[Universidad de Granada]] (Spain) |url=http://www.ugr.es/~pgomez/docencia/master-metod/temas/sitios-filosofia-contemporanea.htm |title=Los mejores portales de filosofía contemporánea |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100622041359/http://www.ugr.es/~pgomez/docencia/master-metod/temas/sitios-filosofia-contemporanea.htm |archive-date=2010-06-22 |date=20 January 2009}}</ref> It is listed in the [[OCLC]] [[WorldCat]] catalog,<ref>{{Cite web |date=20 August 2003 |title=Marxists Internet Archive |url=http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AMarxists+Internet+Archive+%28Firm%29&qt=hot_author |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220426191340/http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AMarxists+Internet+Archive+%28Firm%29&qt=hot_author |archive-date=2022-04-26 |access-date=7 September 2009 |website=[[Online Computer Library Center]] (OCLC) Online Union Catalog}}</ref> and has been selected for archiving by institutions such as the [[British Library]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=UK Web Archive |url=https://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/target/120534 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120506213516/https://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/target/120534 |archive-date=May 6, 2012 |publisher=[[British Library]]}}</ref> Ireland's [[University College Cork]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Archived copy of MIA |url=http://www.ucc.ie/acad/socstud/tmp_store/mia/Library/ |access-date=7 September 2009 |publisher=[[University College Cork]]'s College of Arts, Celtic Studies, and Social Sciences}}{{Dead url|date=March 2023}}</ref> and the US [[Library of Congress]].
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