Wheen biography for kids
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Arthur Wheen
Australian soldier, translator and museum librarian
Arthur Wesley Wheen, MM & Two Bars (9 February – 15 March ) was an Australian soldier, translator and museum librarian. He is best known for translating the works of Erich Maria Remarque into English, beginning with the classic war novel All Quiet on the Western Front in
Early life and education
[edit]He was the son of Clara and Harold Wheen, who was a Wesleyan Minister. His father was transferred to Sydney in , where young Arthur attended Gordon Public School and Sydney Boys High School. In , he won admission to Sydney Teachers College and later attended the University of Sydney, where he studied the fine arts.[1]
First World War
[edit]Wheen was eighteen years and eight months old when he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 15 October Two months later, he embarked as a reinforcement for the 1st Australian Battalion and arrived in Egypt when the Australian Army in Egypt was being expanded from two to four divisions. He was transferred to the newly formed 54th Battalion of the 5th Australian Division where he served as a signaller. The battalion trained at a military base near Tel-el-Kebir before moving with the rest of the division to France in June [1]
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Fitzpatrick also nicely reminds us of one of Capital's pervasive organizing themes, which Marx formulated this way in his earlier pamphlet on Value, Price, and Profit(quoted here from a slightly different translation):
"This seems paradox and contrary to everyday observation. It is also paradox that the earth moves round the sun, and that water consists of two highly inflammable gases. Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things."=> Maybe it would be appropriate to add a personal note, half disclaimer and half testimonial. Unlike many people who went through the s and s as undergraduates and/or graduate students, I've never been a Marxist, have never felt tempted to identify myself as a Marxist, and never even went through a phase of being marxisant. Of the major 19th-century social and political theorists, Durkheim and Weber, and then increasingly Tocqueville, struck me from the start as more exciting and convincing (in their different ways). On many crucial points where they differed from Marx, I found them mo