The introduction of private property
Due to a series of unpleasant events during his stay, Marx was unable to get to the bottom of Algeria's social realities. Nor was he able to examine the peculiarities of the Arab concept of common property in more detail on site. Yet he had obviously already been very interested in this topic a few years earlier: in 1879, Marx had included parts of the book The Common Property - Causes, Course and Consequences of its Decay by the Russian sociologist Maxim Kowalewski in one of his study notebooks. The quoted passages are devoted to the importance of communal land ownership in Algeria before the arrival of the French colonists and the changes that the latter introduced. Marx copied from Kowalewski: "The formation of private property in land is - in the eyes of the French bourgeoisie - a necessary condition for any progress in the political and social sphere." Maintaining the common property practised up to then, "as a form that supports communist tendencies in people's minds", on the other hand, was seen as "dangerous both for the colony and for the fatherland" of the colonial rulers.
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Due to a series of unpleasant events during his stay, Marx was unable to get to the bottom of Algeria's social realities. Nor was he able to examine the peculiarities of the Arab concept of common property in more detail on site. Yet he had obviously already been very interested in this topic a few years earlier: in 1879, Marx had included parts of the book The Common Property - Causes, Course and Consequences of its Decay by the Russian sociologist Maxim Kowalewski in one of his study notebooks. The quoted passages are devoted to the importance of communal land ownership in Algeria before the arrival of the French colonists and the changes that the latter introduced. Marx copied from Kowalewski: "The formation of private property in land is - in the eyes of the French bourgeoisie - a necessary condition for any progress in the political and social sphere." Maintaining the common property practised up to then, "as a form that supports communist tendencies in people's minds", on the other hand, was seen as "dangerous both for the colony and for the fatherland" of the colonial rulers.
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Marx unterstützte die Befreiung der arabischen Welt
Kurz vor seinem Tod hatte Karl Marx seinen einzigen Kontakt mit der arabischen Welt. Er befasste sich nicht detailliert mit der Region, seine Schriften lassen durchaus Sympathie für den arabischen Kampf gegen den Kolonialismus erkennen.JACOBIN Magazin