%0 Journal Article
%T Marx, 1917, and Asiatic Societies
%A McLellan, David
%J Teoria Polityki
%V 2018
%R 10.4467/25440845TP.18.011.8446
%N Nr 2/2018
%P 201-206
%K Marx, Asiatic Societies, Capitalism, Communism
%@ 2543-7046
%D 2018
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/teoria-polityki/artykul/marx-1917-and-asiatic-societies
%X 
	This article asks whether the 1917 Russian revolution was a revolution against Marx’s Das Kapital, as Gramsci claimed. The answer is that Marx changed his approach to historical development and, from the late 1850s onwards, adopted a multilinear rather than a unilinear theory of history. This put in question the idea that capitalism was a necessary prelude to a fully communist society. The article finishes by asking what a fully communist society – one, according to Marx, based on needs rather than wants – might look like and the role of technology therein.