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DESCRIPTION:Saturday September 25th, 2010\n2:00 PM\nMarx at the Margins: On 
 Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies\nAuthor event Marx at the 
 Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies by Kevin B. 
 Anderson 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. While some of these writings show 
 a problematically unilinear perspective and, on occasion, traces of 
 ethnocentrism, the overall trajectory of Marx’s writings was toward a 
 critique of national, ethnic, and colonial oppression and toward an 
 appreciation of resistance movements in these spheres. In 1848, in the 
 Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels espoused an implicitly and 
 problematically unilinear concept of social progress. Precapitalist 
 societies, especially China, which they characterized in ethnocentric terms 
 as a “most barbarian” society, were destined to be forcibly penetrated 
 and modernized by this new and dynamic social system. In his 1853 articles 
 for the New York Tribune, Marx extended these perspectives to India, while 
 viewing the communal social relations and communal property of the Indian 
 village as a solid foundation for “Oriental despotism.” Postcolonial 
 and postmodern thinkers, most notably Edward Said, have criticized the 
 Communist Manifesto and the 1853 India writings as a form of Orientalist 
 knowledge fundamentally similar to the colonialist mindset.\nLocation: NPML 
 6501 Telegraph Ave. Oakland, CA 94609 
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SUMMARY:Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies
LOCATION:Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library\n6501 Telegraph Ave.\nOakland (Between 
 Alcatraz and 66th)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/09/21/18659386.php
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