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 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 [0xc00021a840 0xc000291f20 0xc00177cd80 0xc001d022a0 0xc001eecf60 0xc0020b1c80 0xc0002a75f0 0xc0002b8c90 0xc0002f03f0 0xc000fb7f80 0xc0003f3110 0xc00042f8f0 0xc000fce390 0xc000654780 0xc00080f050 0xc00080f200 0xc000822120 0xc0001caed0 0xc0002ae750 0xc0007157a0 0xc000730ab0 0xc000a34690 0xc000a35b30 0xc000aa7ec0 0xc0009999e0 0xc0009b82a0 0xc000b0d0e0 0xc000ed1620 0xc001555920 0xc00057bd40 0xc00057be90 0xc00065c2d0 0xc001b76540 0xc002172120 0xc00038f9b0 0xc000be29c0 0xc0015b1230 0xc00177eea0 0xc0017a9350 0xc001c7aa50 0xc002062fc0 0xc000ffb3e0] 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