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> It can be found in the letters to Vera Zasulich, dated February-March
1881.
> In the final draft, he states that the rural peasant commune is the
fulcrum
> for revolution in Russia.
Yes, it is "mir" and "ruska obscina". But in this letter he is not saying
that Russia is a candidate for revolution: he ridiculed Bakunin because of
his prediction that Russia and Italy and Spain are the most serious
candidates for revolution. He was very skeptical with regards to possible
revolution in Russia before the English revolution, which was, of course, a
great mistake ( of a great thinker, but nevertheless).....
>There is also the letter to the editorial board
> of the populist newspaper "Otechestvennye Zapiski" from around the same
> time in which Marx disassociates himself with certain Marxists who believe
> that industrialization is a precondition for socialism. He states that the
This is interesting. Is this net-available or is it in archives?
> version of economic development found in Capital was geared only to
England
> and similar countries and did not necessarily apply to countries like
> Russia.
Yes, I am familiar with this words.
> His words for this view are apt: "a historico-philosophical theory
> of the general course fatally imposed on all peoples". It is a view he
Hm, I am not sure how much Marx was authentic in this prounancements, and
how much marxist intervened later....They contradict his original statements
starkly.
I am interested in marxist arguments against this notion:
> rejects. In general the notion that socialism is not possible without
> establishing industrial capitalism beforehand is typical
But isn't this one of the tenets of Marx's "scientifical" socialism?
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