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Damning imperialism: Marx's writing on China
Working for the New York Daily Tribune, Marx excoriated the British empire’s opium trade that brought China under its influence with a staggering human cost, writes NICK MATTHEWS
A watercolour depiction of British and Chinese soldiers facing each other at Zhenjiang in July 1842, by military illustrator Richard Simkin (1840–1926)
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CHINA and Marxism have been much discussed lately. Hearing these voices reminded me that Karl Marx himself had written extensively about China. How his views have come down to us is quite a tale.
In the late 1840s, Charles Anderson Dana, like many well-to-do Americans, took a trip to Europe.
In Paris he came across an uncompromising German radical who seemed to understand everything that was going on in those revolutionary times. This was of course Karl Marx.
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