Late Marx and the Russian Road: Marx and ‘the peripheries of capitalism’ by Teodor Shanin

Author:Teodor Shanin [Shanin, Teodor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Verso

1879

Germany and Austria sign Vienna Alliance. Second congress of French Labour Party at Marseilles. Land League founded in Ireland. As a result of split of the Land and Liberty organisation, People’s Will and Black Repartition founded in Russia.

This year Marx’s health worsened, as did that of his wife Jenny. February Marx reads a summary prepared by Danielson on the Russian financial situation over the previous fifteen years. March Marx annotates Kovalevskii’s Slovo article on the draft Bulgarian constitution. April Letter to Danielson discusses the labour movements in the US and Britain, and the structure of US and Russian economic development (10th). June Marx excerpts Meyer’s Politische Gründer. Marx and Engels help plan illegal socialist journal in Germany (Sozialdemokrat); Marx supports Hirsch for editor (June/July). July Letter to Carlo Cafiero on his resume of Capital sees as the major omission ‘the proof that the necessary material conditions for the emancipation of the proletariat are generated spontaneously by the process of capitalist production’ (29th). August Receives detailed information from Danielson on the financial situation and the condition of agriculture in Russia. Engels writes to Bebel in his and Marx’s name dissociating themselves from the Sozialdemokrat because of growing influence in the party of petty-bourgeois elements (led by Höchberg) (4th). Holiday in Jersey and Ramsgate (c. 8th August to c. 17th September). Marx reads Carlton’s Traits and Stories of the Irish peasantry. Receives official reports from the labour bureaux of Massachusetts, Ohio and Pennsylvania, through Sorge (c. 25th). September Circular letter written by Engels in his and Marx’s name to German party leaders on affairs in the party, threatening a public break if the elements around Höchberg gain control (17th/18th). Marx extensively excerpts and annotates Kovalevskii’s Rural Communal Ownership; from now until October 1880 he reads extensively and comparatively on the rural communes. October Some time between now and October 1880 he compiles chronological notes on Indian history from 664-1858 AD, paying particular attention to the colonial period. December Reading on ancient history, especially Roman law (Reitemeier, Lange, Ihering, Friedländer, Bücher) (December/January). Between now and the end of 1880 he writes marginal notes on Wagner’s Textbook of Political Economy. In 1879 Marx’s reading also included the fiscal material from Danielson, Karayev’s Peasantry and the Peasant Question in France in the Last Quarter of the 18th Century, Guesde’s Collectivism and Revolution, and Redgrave’s The Factory and Workshop Act. He also compiled a copious bibliography on matriarchal law.

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