Marx and Engels on Imperialism

Spencer A. Leonard

doi:10.5771/9781498559249

Summary

For a little over a decade after the denouement of the Revolutions of 1848, Karl Marx, together with his collaborator Friedrich Engels, worked as a professional journalist. Writing from London for newspapers in the United States and, eventually, Europe, Marx and Engels deepened their analysis of the crisis of revolution that they first began in direct engagement with revolutionary events, most notably in The Class Struggles in France and The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. In this vast body of largely neglected professional journalism, Marx and Engels elaborated the critical concept of imperialism.

This is the first book to select and bring together Marx and Engels’s journalism around a conceptual theme, rather than a mere topic. Whatever the subject—capitalist state policy making, mass democracy, the outbreak of the Second Opium War and the suppression of the 1857 Indian Revolt, the rise of credit agencies, or the global significance of the US Civil War—the journalism collected here constellates around the theme of imperialism, a concept Marx and Engels critically appropriated from the liberalism of their day.

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-5923-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-5924-9
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 382
Product type: Edited Book

1. Dedication No access
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3. 1. Single-Volume Journalism Collections No access
  2. Except for Capital and The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, All Citations Are to the Marx-Engels Collected Works No access
  3. Single-Volume Editions of Marx Used Here No access
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3. 1. [Karl Marx] No access
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5. 1. [Friedrich Engels] No access
  2. 1. London, May 22, 1857 No access
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  2. 1. London, July 28, 1857 No access
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  2. 1. London, September 4, 1857 No access
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  2. 1. Part 1 (September 25, 1858) No access
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  2. 1. London, October 3, 1856 No access
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11. [On Italian Unity] No access
12. 1. New York TribuneJanuary 24, 1859 No access
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  2. 1. Berlin, January 11, 185929 No access
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  2. 1. Paris, March 9, 1859 No access
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16. What has Italy Gained? No access
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18. New York TribuneJuly 27, 1859 No access
19. Louis Napoleon and Italy No access
20. 1. New York TribuneAugust 29, 1859 No access
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  2. 1. Part One (March 25,1857)—“The Defeat of the Palmerston Ministry” No access
    2. London, March 6, 1857 No access
    3. Part Two (March 31, 1857)—“The Coming Election in England” No access
    4. London, March 13, 1857 No access
    5. Part Three (April 6, 1857)—“The English Election” No access
    6. London, March 20, 1857 No access
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  2. 1. London, November 25, 1859 No access
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1. Introduction No access
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  2. 1. London, September 18, 1861 No access
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1. English No access
2. French No access
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1. Chronology 1815–47 No access
2. 1. 1848 No access
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  5. 1851 to October 1852 No access
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  7. 1852–53Second Burmese War No access
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  14. 1856–60Second Opium War pits Britain and, later, France against the Qing dynasty No access
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3. Chronology 1864–1899 No access
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Index No access Pages 359 - 380
About the Editor No access Pages 381 - 382