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Marx, 1917, and Asiatic Societies

Publication date: 06.04.2018

Teoria Polityki, 2018, No. 2/2018, pp. 201 - 206

https://doi.org/10.4467/25440845TP.18.011.8446

Authors

David McLellan
University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, England, CT2 7NZ UK
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Marx, 1917, and Asiatic Societies

Abstract

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.

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Information: Teoria Polityki, 2018, No. 2/2018, pp. 201 - 206

Article type: Original article

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Marx, 1917, and Asiatic Societies

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Marx, 1917, and Asiatic Societies

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University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, England, CT2 7NZ UK

Published at: 06.04.2018

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