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Marx, List, and the Materiality of Nations

Desai, Radhika·2012·Rethinking Marxism
DOI 10.1080/08935696.2012.635038
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This paper contests the cosmopolitan consensus in contemporary Marxism that Marx and Engels's vision of capitalism was ‘global’ and that nations are essentially ‘cultural’ constructs. It contributes to a wider project arguing that nations are material by taking a closer look at Marx and Engels's writings on free trade and protectionism and, in particular, at Marx's notes on Friedrich List's National System of Political Economy (1841/56). This examination shows that Marx and Engels had a keen understanding of the economic roles of states, national and imperial, and thought about free trade and protection in geopolitical terms. Though Marx aimed his characteristically caustic wit and forensic critique at List's contradictions, silences, and hypocrisies as a bourgeois thinker, he accepted that nation-states played economic and geopolitical roles in a capitalist world and that developmental states were possible, indeed necessary. The ground for these arguments is prepared by outlining the centrality of the economic roles of states in the development of modern capitalism and by showing how the recent revival of Marxist accounts of capitalist geopolitics is hampered by a purely economic, non- or anti-statist conception of capitalism.

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Authors
Desai, R.
Corresponding author
Desai, Radhika
ORCID
Desai, Radhika
Venue
Rethinking Marxism
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2012-01
Volume
24
Issue
1
Pages
47-67
ISSN
  • 0893-5696 (ISSN-L)
  • 1475-8059
DOI
10.1080/08935696.2012.635038
OpenAlex
W1987654746
Cited by
16
References
60
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2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1
FWCI
2.44
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Rethinking Marxism (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Economy and Marxism
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Marxism and Critical Theory
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Globalization and political ideologies
Keywords
Karl Marx, Friedrich List, national system of political economy, nation-state, free trade, protectionism, role of the state in the economy, imperialism, developmental state, anti-statism, Marx and Engels

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