> However, I would disagree that Marx's anti-anarchism doesn't have any
> connections with his economic determinism.
>
> For example, in criticising Bakunin [and his revolutionary pan-slavic past,
> which Bakunin had long since denounced in favour of revolutionary
> socialism], Marx wrote in 1871 in Neue Rheiniseche Zeitung: "Apart from the
> Russians, the Poles, and perhaps the Tukish Slavs, no Slavic people has a
> future, for the simple reason that they lack the indispensable historical,
> geographical, political, and industrial conditions for independence and
> vitality". It this isn't a clear cut example of Marx's economic determinism
> manifested in one of his short-sighted anti-anarchist diatribtes, I don't
> know what is...
First, the quote is from the NRZ of February 15, 1849, not from 1871 (when the NRZ didn't exist). (It's on p.367 of volume 8 of the Marx Engels Collected Works edition), so your dating is out by 22 years.
Second, more importantly, the quote isn't from Marx, anyway, but from an article by Friedrich Engels. (Whether the views of anyone other than Marx were relevant to this discussion was discussed earlier in this thread: you took the view that only Marx's texts were relevant).
Third, even if it were by Marx, it's not clear that we should treat one sentence buried in the middle of a newspaper article, written fast, during an extended period of revolutionary militancy, as evidence of his considered view about anything in particular.
Chris