By Robert Biel
Robert Biel's Eurocentrism and the Communist flow strains the heritage of Eurocentric—and anti-Eurocentric—currents within the Marxist-Leninist culture, arguing that this distortion used to be key to the advance and unfold of revisionism, and eventually to the mess ups of the communist venture, within the twentieth century.
A paintings of highbrow background, Eurocentrism and the Communist flow explores the connection among Eurocentrism, alienation, and racism, whereas tracing the various principles approximately imperialism, colonialism, "progress", and non-European peoples as they have been grappled with by way of revolutionaries in either the colonized and colonizing international locations. Teasing out racist mistakes and anti-racist insights inside of this background, Biel unearths a century-long fight to claim the centrality of the main exploited in the fight opposed to capitalism.
The roles of key figures within the Marxist-Leninist canon—Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao—within this fight are explored, as are these of others whose paintings might be much less widespread to a few readers, comparable to Sultan Galiev, Lamine Senghor, Lin Biao, R.P. Dutt, Samir Amin, and others.
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Marx did, nevertheless, create what is a potentially correct basis for such an analysis. We can appreciate this if we consider his critique of Ludwig Feuerbach, a philosopher whose work played a major role in the intellectual background to the development of Marxism, but which the latter needed to transcend. Hegel had laid a profound basis for dialectics, but Feuerbach’s contribution was to overturn the idealist basis upon which Hegel’s dialectics were developed; he did so by showing that ideologies are a reflection of the real world.
The latter maintained a tight control over the world market in order to foster a system of unequal exchange. When the exploitative international division of labour had been sufficiently consolidated, it became possible in some areas to promote a pseudo-autonomous form of “development,” which is essentially subordinate and serves to accentuate factors like the dependence and dislocation of the subordinate economies, unemployment, the swelling of shanty-towns around the cities, and decadent neo-colonial culture.
13] These Nazi ideas, unrespectable of course today within the bourgeois mainstream, nevertheless have a very “respectable” and “civilised” mainstream pedigree, which will be mentioned later. The important thing is to grasp the interrelationship between class, “race,” and the national question; as we shall see, the issue of how one appraises the peasantry remains important for the analysis of Eurocentrism. Although ideologies reflect social contradictions, a true ideology is never purely instrumental (deliberate, conspiratorial).