{"product_id":"9781894946797","title":"On Colonies, Industrial Monopoly, and the Working Class Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally compiled and edited by the Communist Working Circle (CWC), in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1972, this is a republished collection of excerpts from the corpus of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarx and Engels. These show the evolution of Marx and Engels's ideas on\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe nascent labor aristocracy and the complicating factors of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecolonialism and chauvinism, with a focus on the British Empire of their\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition of \"On Colonies\" includes a substantial introduction by\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarxist economist Zak Cope and former CWC member Torkil Lauesen,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecentering these concepts in theory and history. Cope and Lauesen show\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehow Marx and Engels's initial belief that capitalism would extend\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eseamlessly around the globe in the same form was proven wrong by events,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eas instead worldwide imperialism spread capitalism as a polarizing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprocess, not only between the bourgeoisie and the working class, but\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ealso as a division between an imperialist center and an exploited\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eperiphery. This fundamental contradiction gave capitalism completely new\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econditions of growth and accounts for its tragic longevity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth foundational and indispensable, \"On Colonies\" provides a useful\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eintroduction to \"Third Worldist\" analysis of global capitalism, tracing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eits roots back to Marxism's earliest works.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47063964287216,"sku":"9781894946797","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781894946797_p0.jpg?v=1763611064","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781894946797","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}