Late Marx and the Russian Road: Marx and the Peripheries of Capitalism

"it is a question no longer of a problem to be solved, but simply of an enemy to be beaten" —Karl Marx, Drafts of a reply, 1881

The intensive research coupled with public silence during the last decade of Marx's life represented a new, theoretical 'post-Capital' threshold. This phase corresponded - not accidentally - with intensive studies of Russia and contacts with its theorists and revolutionaries. Russia was the first 'developing society', and its social and intellectual cont…