Only at the end of his life did Karl Marx leave the shores of Europe and
travel to a country under colonial dominion. This was when he went to
Algeria in 1882. ‘For Mussulmans, there is no such thing as
subordination’, Marx wrote to his daughter Laura Lafargue. Inequality is
an abomination to ‘a true Mussulman’ (a Muslim), but these sentiments,
Marx felt, ‘will go to rack and ruin without a revolutionary movement’.
A movement of revolutionary understanding would, he thought, easily be
able to grow where there was a deeply rooted cultural feeling against
inequality. Marx did not write more about Algeria or about Islam. These
were observations made by a father to his daughter. But they do tell us
a great deal about Marx’s sensibility.
https://www.thetricontinental.org/dossier-37-marxism-and-national-liberation/
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