I know it’s fake because Marx had a deeply eurocentric world view. He thought the revolution must start in the most “progressive” part of the world which for him was the west
Kind of, but his later works indicate he had developed a slightly more nuanced view than the thought experiments and basically meme understanding of non-european cultures that his earlier works inherit from Smith and others.
England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the material foundations of Western society in Asia.
I know it’s fake because Marx had a deeply eurocentric world view. He thought the revolution must start in the most “progressive” part of the world which for him was the west
The best thing about that is that “the west” is such a nonsensical designation for a location on a globe.
Kind of, but his later works indicate he had developed a slightly more nuanced view than the thought experiments and basically meme understanding of non-european cultures that his earlier works inherit from Smith and others.
I hope the Indians whom he told to abolish their culture can appreciate that
What work was that?
The Future Results of British Rule in India, 1853
https://marxists.architexturez.net/archive/marx/works/1853/07/22.htm