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Apr 10, 2024 · Interview by Owen Dowling. Robin Blackburn, longtime editor of the New Left Review, is probably the foremost Marxist historian of New World slavery working today.In The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery: 1776–1848 (1988) and The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492–1800 (1997), Blackburn charts the construction and revolutionary downfall of the slave systems of the ...
It is slavery that has given value to the colonies, it is the colonies that have created world trade, and world trade is the necessary condition for large-scale machine industry. Slavery is therefore an economic category of paramount importance. Such linkages between capitalism and slavery permeated the whole of Marx’s writings. But he also ...
Apr 14, 2019 · However, re-reading the relation of slavery to Marx’s early work on alienation, and as well, reading ‘Marx beyond Marx’ has revealed, nonetheless, a different new history of capitalism in which slavery remains central to understanding the past, the present and the making of the future.
- David Neilson, Michael A. Peters
- 2020
Mar 1, 2020 · Among Marxist-influenced historians of slavery these claims have been made by Mandle (1972), Post (1982), Fields (1985), and Ashworth (2011). In the scholarship on Marxian theory more generally we ...
- John Clegg
Jan 8, 2024 · Abstract Marx’s critical theory of slavery is the operational subtext throughout his critique of political economy. For Marx, the movement from modern slavery to capital represents a historical transition of significance, not only (or foremost) as an empirical transition but also as a transformation of social substance. Marx reveals why, in retrospect, production based on slavery, as logical ...
- Beverley Best
showing its strong connection with slavery, it does not discuss the historical role that slave and free labor played within the history of Civil War. Even the controversy among the historians that followed the project remains limited to the unresolved debate on the origin, development, and fulfillment of the dem-ocratic ideal of the nation.13
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The relationship between slavery and capitalism has become a renewed topic of debate, yet scholars have not been able to agree on a definition of capitalism. In this article I first clear up some misconceptions and situate the debate in the Marxian tradition from which it arose.
