Marx’s theories of democracy and nation formed in response to the 1848-49 defeats

Evidence

Neither the Marxian theory of democracy nor the Marxian view of national evolution is fully comprehensible unless it is remembered that they took shape on the morrow of the worst defeat democracy and nationalism had yet suffered in Europe. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 325

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Directly supports the reader’s stated goal of tracing the arc and origins of the radical tradition — Marx and Engels as ambivalent middle-class intellectuals of a defeated revolution.

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