Marx and Engels on Imperialism -

Marx and Engels on Imperialism

Selected Journalism, 1856–62

Spencer A. Leonard (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
392 Seiten
2023
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-5923-2 (ISBN)
129,65 inkl. MwSt
This volume is the first to compile the journalistic works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels dealing with imperialism. Here Marx and Engels examine capitalist state policymaking, mass democracy, the Second Opium War, the suppression of the 1857 Indian Revolt, the rise of credit agencies, the global significance of the US Civil War, and more.
For a little over a decade after the ignominious collapse of the Revolution of 1848, Karl Marx worked as a professional journalist. Writing from London for newspapers in America and, eventually, on the Continent, he continued while living in exile the analysis of the crisis of revolution that he first began in direct engagement with revolutionary events, most notably in The Class Struggles in France of 1850 and The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte of 1852. In what became a vast body of material, through this journalistic work Marx elaborated the critical concept of "bonapartism" first abumbrated in the latter book. Continuing his effort to learn the lesson of 1848, Marx concentrated on the crisis of modern society and the new mass democratic state that emerged, in the absence of the dictatorship of the proletariat, to meet that crisis.

Together with Marx and Engels on Imperialism, this is the first book to select and bring together Marx’s journalism around a conceptual theme, rather than a mere topic. Whatever the subject — the emergence of a new capitalist politics or the new unionism in Britain, post-1848 Chartism, the East India Company, European nationalisms, or the Taiping Rebellion in China — Marx and Engels' journalism is shown to constellate around “bonapartism,” a concept that Marx critically appropriated from liberals distressed at the post-1848 order.

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Spencer A Leonard teaches history at the University of Virginia.

Introduction: Beyond Dispute? Editing Marx after Marxism

List of Abbreviations

Chapter 1: The Second Opium War and the Indian Revolt of 1857–58

Introduction

The Anglo-Chinese Conflict January 23, 1857

English Atrocities in China April 10, 1857

Persia—China (Engels) June 5, 1857

The Revolt in the Indian Army July 15, 1857

The Indian Question August 14, 1857

The Indian Revolt September 16, 1857

Investigation of Tortures in India September 17, 1857

British Incomes in India September 21, 1857

British Atrocities in India April 5, 1858

Details of the Attack on Lucknow (Engels) May 25, 1858

The Annexation of Oude May 28, 1858

British Army in India (Engels) June 26, 1858

The Indian Bill July 24, 1858

History of the Opium Trade September 1858

Chapter 2: The Regime of Louis Bonaparte and the Post-1848 European Order

Introduction

The France of Bonaparte the Little April 5, 1856

The French Crédit Mobilier June–July 1856

The Monetary Crisis in Europe October 15, 1856

State of Europe—Financial State of France July 27, 1857

The Attempt Upon the Life of Bonaparte February 22, 1858

The Rule of the Pretorians March 12, 1858

The British Government and the Slave Trade July 2, 1858

Project for the Regulation of the Price of Bread in France December 15, 1858

Affairs in Prussia February 1, 1859

The War Prospect in France March 31, 1859

A Historic Parallel March 31, 1859

Chapter 3: Palmerston’s Reelection as the Political Consolidation of Imperialism

Introduction

The Defeat of the Palmerston Ministry and the Election of 1857 March–April 1857

The Defeat of Cobden, Bright, and Gibson April 17, 1857

The English Bank Act of 1844 August 23, 1858

On Ernest Jones July 16, 1859

The Invasion Panic in England December 9, 1859

English Politics February 14, 1860

A Slander Trial December 24, 1861

Chapter 4: The American Civil War

Introduction

The American Question in England October 11, 1861

The London Times and Lord Palmerston October 21, 1861

The London Times on the Orleans Princes in America November 7, 1861

The Civil War in the United States November 7, 1861

A London Workers’ MeetingFebruary 2, 1862

A Treaty Against the Slave Trade May 22, 1862

Criticism of American Affairs August 9, 1862

Comments on the North American Events October 12, 1862

Appendix 1: English Newspapers Quoted by Marx and Engels

Appendix 2: Newspapers for which Marx and Engels Wrote, 1851–62

Appendix 3: Chronology: Socialism, Marxism, and Imperialism, 1815–1899

About the Editor

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 157 x 236 mm
Gewicht 676 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 1-4985-5923-9 / 1498559239
ISBN-13 978-1-4985-5923-2 / 9781498559232
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