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 [0xc001080270 0xc0016193b0 0xc001bafce0 0xc000191140 0xc001d10ae0 0xc0003562a0 0xc000377b60 0xc000112ed0 0xc000444990 0xc00048be60 0xc000623f80 0xc0005e5800 0xc000123530 0xc0001236e0 0xc00017e660 0xc000418390 0xc0004a8570 0xc00074ac60 0xc00074bf80 0xc000c0d1a0 0xc000c209f0 0xc000c3b080 0xc001d66750 0xc0009ce540 0xc00041a600 0xc00041b080 0xc000311cb0 0xc0006c3260 0xc00075d5f0 0xc0013e12f0 0xc0013e1470 0xc001427950 0xc000469a40 0xc000d26a50 0xc00140ae40 0xc0019a0b70 0xc0024e6db0 0xc001e4b5c0 0xc001e59e90 0xc0005a46c0 0xc00094d6e0 0xc0024307b0] 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