A thinker’s authentic works supersede co-authored attributions

Evidence

The point is that [Engels] is not [Marx], and that if one wants to know [Marx] one must look for him above all in his authentic works, those published under his direct responsibility. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1373

Categorization

• XREF: Gramsci’s warning here parallels the editorial-care debate over his own posthumously assembled Prison Notebooks; also connects to the general principle that second-hand attributions carry authorial infiltration risk.