Marx at the Margins
On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies

Anderson, Kevin B.

Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Year First Published: {31195 Marx at the Margins MARX AT THE MARGINS On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies Anderson, Kevin B. University Of Chicago Press Marx’s critique of capital was far broader than is usually supposed. To be sure, he concentrated on the labor-capital relation within Western Europe and North America. But at the same time, he expended considerable time and energy on the analysis of non-Western societies, as well as race, ethnicity, and nationalism. 2010 2016 $32.63 BC31195-MarxMargins.jpg B Book 9780226019833 JC233.M299A544 2016 320.54-dc23 - Contents: Introduction A Note on Marx’s Relationship to Engels A Note on Sources Acknowledgments Abbreviations Chapter 1: Colonial Encounters in the 1850s: The European Impact on India, Indonesia, and China The 1853 Writings on India: Qualified Support for Colonialism Marx, Goethe, and Edward Said’s Critique of Eurocentrism Resistance and Regeneration in the 1853 Writings The 1853 Notes on Indonesia On China: The Taiping Rebellion and the Opium Wars “India Is Now Our Best Ally”: The 1857 Sepoy Rebellion Chapter 2: Russia and Poland: The Relationship of National Emancipation to Revolution Russia as a Counterrevolutionary Threat On the Chechens and the “Jewish Question” The Turning Point of 1857-58: “In Russia the Movement Is Progressing Better Than Anywhere Else” Poland as “External Thermometer” of the European Revolution The Polish Uprising of 1863: “The Era of Revolution Has Opened in Europe Once More” Debates Over Poland and France within the International Dispute with the Proudhonists over Poland Last Writings on Poland Chapter 3: Race, Class, and Slavery: The Civil War as a Second American Revolution “The Signal Has Now Been Given”: The Civil War as a Turning Point The Civil War and Class Cleavage in Britain: The Movement against Intervention “A War of This Kind Must Be Conducted in a Revolutionary Way” Continuing Disagreements with Engels, Even as the Tide Turns Toward the First International Chapter 4: Ireland: Nationalism, Class, and the Labor Movement Engels and Marx on Ireland, 1843-59: “Give Me Two Hundred Thousand Irishmen and I Will Overthrow the Entire British Monarchy” Marx on Ireland During the Crucial Year 1867: “I Once Believed the Separation of Ireland from England to Be Impossible. I Now Regard It as Inevitable” Theorizing Ireland after the Upheavals of 1867 Notes on Irish Anthropology and History A Change of Position in 1869-70: Ireland as the “Lever” of the Revolution The Controversy with Bakunin and After Ireland and the Wider European Revolution Chapter 5: From the Grundrisse to Capital: Multilinear Themes The Grundrisse: A Multilinear Perspective Non-Western Societies, Especially India, in the 1861-63 Economic Manuscripts The Narrative Structure of Capital, Vol. I, Especially the French Edition Subtexts of Capital, Vol. I Chapter 6: Late Writings on Non-Western and Precapitalist Societies Gender and Social Hierarchy Among the Iroquois, the Homeric Greeks, and Other Preliterate Societies India’s Communal Social Forms under the Impact of Muslim and European Conquest Colonialism in Indonesia, Algeria, and Latin America Russia: Communal Forms as the “Point of Departure for a Communist Development” Conclusion Appendix: The Vicissitudes of the Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe (MEGA), from the 1920s to Today Riazanov and the First Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe The Collected Works of Marx and Engels Marx’s Oeuvres, as Edited by Rubel The Second Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe, Before and After 1989 References Index CX12632 1 true true false CX12632.htm [0xc001006030 0xc001ca4a50 0xc00228b200 0xc00007c4e0 0xc0002edb00 0xc0002ff2c0 0xc00244cb10 0xc002477e00 0xc0004396e0 0xc000494b70 0xc000340f30 0xc00013e450 0xc00087c5d0 0xc00087c780 0xc00087d6b0 0xc00039f290 0xc000429140 0xc0024d86c0 0xc0024d99e0 0xc000c76210 0xc000c77a10 0xc000ca4090 0xc000cc7740 0xc000dde960 0xc0002e1d40 0xc0003027b0 0xc0001c0870 0xc0004f5cb0 0xc0005ae060 0xc0013b5800 0xc0013b5980 0xc001405e60 0xc0005026f0 0xc000e31590 0xc001525860 0xc001c6b320 0xc0023f2ff0 0xc0021c8810 0xc0021db080 0xc000535770 0xc0008b6750 0xc0025e4ed0] Cx}
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Marx’s critique of capital was far broader than is usually supposed. To be sure, he concentrated on the labor-capital relation within Western Europe and North America. But at the same time, he expended considerable time and energy on the analysis of non-Western societies, as well as race, ethnicity, and nationalism.

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Contents:

Introduction
A Note on Marx’s Relationship to Engels
A Note on Sources
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Chapter 1: Colonial Encounters in the 1850s: The European Impact on India, Indonesia, and China
The 1853 Writings on India: Qualified Support for Colonialism
Marx, Goethe, and Edward Said’s Critique of Eurocentrism
Resistance and Regeneration in the 1853 Writings
The 1853 Notes on Indonesia
On China: The Taiping Rebellion and the Opium Wars
“India Is Now Our Best Ally”: The 1857 Sepoy Rebellion

Chapter 2: Russia and Poland: The Relationship of National Emancipation to Revolution
Russia as a Counterrevolutionary Threat
On the Chechens and the “Jewish Question”
The Turning Point of 1857-58: “In Russia the Movement Is Progressing Better Than Anywhere Else”
Poland as “External Thermometer” of the European Revolution
The Polish Uprising of 1863: “The Era of Revolution Has Opened in Europe Once More”
Debates Over Poland and France within the International
Dispute with the Proudhonists over Poland
Last Writings on Poland

Chapter 3: Race, Class, and Slavery: The Civil War as a Second American Revolution
“The Signal Has Now Been Given”: The Civil War as a Turning Point
The Civil War and Class Cleavage in Britain: The Movement against Intervention
“A War of This Kind Must Be Conducted in a Revolutionary Way”
Continuing Disagreements with Engels, Even as the Tide Turns
Toward the First International

Chapter 4: Ireland: Nationalism, Class, and the Labor Movement
Engels and Marx on Ireland, 1843-59: “Give Me Two Hundred Thousand Irishmen and I Will Overthrow the Entire British Monarchy”
Marx on Ireland During the Crucial Year 1867: “I Once Believed the Separation of Ireland from England to Be Impossible. I Now Regard It as Inevitable”
Theorizing Ireland after the Upheavals of 1867
Notes on Irish Anthropology and History
A Change of Position in 1869-70: Ireland as the “Lever” of the Revolution
The Controversy with Bakunin and After
Ireland and the Wider European Revolution

Chapter 5: From the Grundrisse to Capital: Multilinear Themes
The Grundrisse: A Multilinear Perspective
Non-Western Societies, Especially India, in the 1861-63 Economic Manuscripts
The Narrative Structure of Capital, Vol. I, Especially the French Edition
Subtexts of Capital, Vol. I

Chapter 6: Late Writings on Non-Western and Precapitalist Societies
Gender and Social Hierarchy Among the Iroquois, the Homeric Greeks, and Other Preliterate Societies
India’s Communal Social Forms under the Impact of Muslim and European Conquest
Colonialism in Indonesia, Algeria, and Latin America
Russia: Communal Forms as the “Point of Departure for a Communist Development”

Conclusion

Appendix: The Vicissitudes of the Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe (MEGA), from the 1920s to Today
Riazanov and the First Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe
The Collected Works of Marx and Engels
Marx’s Oeuvres, as Edited by Rubel
The Second Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe, Before and After 1989

References

Index

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Marx at the Margins
On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies