Karl Marx Defends British Opium War

dulp 發表於 2009-6-13 22:04:01

From: <a href="http://american_almanac.tripod.com/opium.htm" target="_blank">http://american_almanac.tripod.com/opium.htm</a> Marx's role as an apologist for the British Empire's "globalization'' is explicit in his defense of the British Empire's rape of India. Marx advanced a Mandevillian argument, that, because "capitalism'' is superior to "oriental despotism'', even though the intent and actions of British colonialism were evil, British colonialism benefitted India! Even more explicit is Marx's defense of Britain's first Opium War. Amidst much bravado about the potential for world revolution, Marx praised the Opium War for throwing China into chaos. He claimed that Britain was advancing civilization in China, by destroying China's old culture, and opening up China to the international economy. He even reported, approvingly, that British policies were causing such unemployment in China, that displaced Chinese workers were being used as slave labor throughout the world. Karl Marx wrote in a July 22, 1853 article in the New York Daily Tribune: "Whatever be the social causes, and whatever religious, dynastic, or national shape they may assume, that have brought about the chronic rebellions subsisting in China for about ten years past, and now gathered together in one formidable revolution, the occasion of this outbreak has unquestionably been afforded by the English cannon forcing upon China that soporific drug called opium. Before the British arms the authority of the Manchu dynasty fell to pieces; the superstitious faith in the Eternity of the Celestial Empire broke down; the barbarous and hermetic isolation from the civilized world was infringed; and an opening was made for that intercourse which has since proceeded so rapidly under the golden attractions of California and Australia. At the same time the silver coin of the Empire, its life-blood, began to be drained away to the British East Indies.'' Reflecting the racism which dominated England, where the majority of the population enthusiastically supported the first Opium War (there were popular demonstrations against the second Opium War), Marx defends the British-forced addiction of China: "It would seem as though history had first to make this whole people drunk before it could rouse them out of their hereditary stupidity.'' Marx even argued that the Chinese had a disposition for opium: "The Chinese, it is true, are no more likely to renounce the use of opium than are the Germans to forswear tobacco.'' 

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dulp 發表於 2009-6-13 22:11:19

Adam Smith and Karl Marx: Apologists for the Empire's "Globalization" The 19th Century was dominated by a battle between the supporters of the American System, on one side, and the British Empire, on the other. During the middle of the century, the circles around American economist, Henry Carey, fought for a series of projects to develop Asia, centered around railroads, as is described in the recent EIR cover-story, "The 'land-bridge': Henry Carey's global development program.'' Had the Carey circles grand design not been sabotaged by the British Empire, all of Asia would have developed as dramatically as Japan, which escaped the control of the British, and formed an alliance with the Carey circles during the Meiji Restoration. The science of economics, as embodied in the American System, was founded by Leibniz. The modern embodiment of this science, is found in the works of Lyndon LaRouche such as, So You Wish to Learn All About Economics: Successful human survival is guaranteed only when society organizes successive creative breakthroughs in science and technology, which are then applied economically, to increasing man's power over nature, resulting in increases in the relative potential population density. A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology. The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth. Bernard de Mandeville stated explicitly in his Fable of the Bees, that men, in following their hedonistic desires, even in pursuit of evil ends, would ensure the best result for society. Adam Smith, in his Wealth of Nations, followed this belief, that human behavior was best ordered by each man following his hedonistic desires to their lawful conclusion. He argued that opium was a legitimate product, the same as any other commodity, that the objective laws of the "invisible hand'' must be allowed to determine all economic activity, and anything which stood in the way, such as national governments, were an obstacle which must be removed. Smith, a propagandist for British colonialism, argued that human progress was advanced with the spread of this "free market'' globally, through the expansion of the British Empire. A similar defense of British colonialism was also advanced by Karl Marx. Marx has an undeserved reputation as an opponent of British imperialism, because his writings were designed to appeal to, and manipulate people, based on their grievances. Marx emigrated from Germany to England at age 30, where he became a dupe of British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston. Palmerston dominated the British government from 1830 to 1865, and, was the central figure in efforts to make the British Empire into a new Roman Empire. He directed British strategy in the Opium Wars. He also kept a stable of radicals and terrorists for purposes of destabilizing other nations. (Eleven countries have recently denounced the British government for harboring terrorists, demonstrating that the British have continued this practice to this day.) In Marx's early writings, he adopted Aristotle's definition of man as "a political animal,'' even using the ancient Greek term, used by Aristotle. Consequently, he rejected the conception that man advances society through creative discovery, and instead argued that society advanced according to mechanistic laws through a natural progression, from ancient society, to feudalism, to capitalism, to socialism, to communism. Marx called Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, "an immense step forward'' because it reduced the value of all economic activity to the value placed on it, by the universal free market. Marx attacked Carey's program for national economic development as a regression from Adam Smith. He rejected Henry Carey's attack on "the diabolical influence of England on the world-market,'' by claiming that it was simply, "the natural laws of capitalist production,'' and attacked Carey's plans for an alliance with Russia to defeat the British Empire by labeling him a "Russophile.'' 

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광동왕국-08 發表於 2009-6-15 00:43:31

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Here below is my own opinions;
 
Despite the political issue, it's quite easy to talk about them ( Adam Smith and Carl Marx )
 
The doctrines of both of Adam Smith and Carl Marx are belonging to the Classical Schools ( 古典學派 )
 
A very famous book in the world named " An inquiry into the nature and causes of "THE WEALTH OF NATIONS " was written by Sir Adam smith, issued in the year 1776
 
From which, we attained many many things. it carries the world into a modernized era, learned from it, we know some important issues.
 
The Devision of labour, we can improve the production in quantity, more higher effeciency on saving time.
 
The improvement of transporting machine, since the steam train and steam ship were invented, it took over the transportation tools which using horses before
 
The barter trade, 
 
 
 
To be continued.......
 
 
 

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寶寶發表於 2009-12-21 19:15:21

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寶寶發表於 2009-12-21 21:22:06

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饭团子 發表於 2009-12-23 17:40:34

唉。。。沒心情看完它啊。。。。。 不過無論怎麼講。。。 Opium War都是很卑鄙的一場戰爭。。。 當初英國殖民加拿大的時候。。。 也是用Alcohol來讓印第安人腐敗的 其實。。英國殖民的手法還是挺卑鄙的。。。

紫凤凰 發表於 2010-1-12 02:04:04

只係講馬克思為（英國的）鴉片戰爭辯護罷了。

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