Marx and Engels’s theory of history

Making Sense of the Race Factor

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6293129
AutoresErik Van Ree (0000-0002-9419-1594, University of Amsterdam, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume24
Fascículo1
Páginas54-73
Data de publicação2019-01-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Political Ideologies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1356-9317 • E-ISSN: 1469-9613
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13569317.2019.1548094
OpenAlexW2902311753
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7

This article argues that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s theory of history contained racist components. In Marx and Engels’s understanding, racial disparities emerged under the influence of shared natural and social conditions hardening into heredity and of the mixing of blood. They racialized skin-colour groups, ethnicities, nations and social classes, while endowing them with innate superior and inferior character traits. They regarded race as part of humanity’s natural conditions, upon which the production system rested. ‘Races’ endowed with superior qualities would boost economic development and productivity, while the less endowed ones would hold humanity back. Marxist race thinking reflected common Lamarckian and Romantic-Nationalist assumptions of the era

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