El-Azm first argued Marx equally disdained all pre-capitalist structures.
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This particular point – that Marx had equal contempt for European and non-European pre-capitalist structures – was initially made in response to Said by the Syrian intellectual Sadek el-Azm in his essay ‘Orientalism and Orientalism-in-Reverse’, Khamsin, no. 8 (London: Ithaca Press, 1982). — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 733
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