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 [0xc00102bc20 0xc0015d82a0 0xc0017dbbc0 0xc0000d9170 0xc00031a690 0xc00031be00 0xc00033f050 0xc0000de300 0xc0004a0660 0xc0004e7980 0xc00246e6f0 0xc000347b90 0xc000877320 0xc0008774d0 0xc000888420 0xc000282420 0xc0003322d0 0xc0009c7b60 0xc0009d6ea0 0xc0009020f0 0xc0009038c0 0xc0009b9f20 0xc000a075c0 0xc000c825d0 0xc0001fa720 0xc0001fb140 0xc001155020 0xc000f76300 0xc000122660 0xc000e80ab0 0xc000e80c30 0xc000f35110 0xc002032cc0 0xc00035d7d0 0xc000b0f500 0xc0013a6ab0 0xc001d8f260 0xc001f5bbc0 0xc001fa0420 0xc002467890 0xc00262e780 0xc0018c96b0] 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