[lbo-talk] Marx and Engels on the lazy Mexicans, Slavs, Scots, Basques, Bretons, native Americans etc etc

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 7 12:33:41 PST 2008


I like this one ("counterrevolutionary peoples"!!!). I'm translating from a Russian translation of Engels, The Struggle in Hungary (or whatever it's called in English):

Of all the large and small peoples of Austria only three have been bearers of progress that truly influenced history and today retain the capability of life: Germans, Poles, and Malyars (sp?). It is for this reason that they are now revolutionary.

All the other large and small peoples and nations will soon perish in the revolutionary storm. It is for this reason that they are now counterrevolutionary.

--- On Fri, 11/7/08, James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:


> From: James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk>


> There is lots more of Marx and Engels contempt for primitive
> peoples. I think David Mitrany (British MI6) did a
> collection of Marx and Engels against the Peasant: A study
> in Social Dogmatism to show them up as no friends of the
> people. More recently N Davidson's Marx and Engels on
> the Scottish Highlands
> http://www.atypon-link.com/GPI/doi/abs/10.1521/siso.65.3.286.17770
> expressed some disappointment at their disdain for the
> peasant life.
>



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