Marx saw race as a criterion of entitlement
Marx to Engels, 1865: "It has ditto been shown geologically and hydrographically that a great ‘Asiatic’ difference occurs east of the Dnieper, compared with what lies to the west of it, and that (as Murchison has already maintained) the Urals by no means constitute a dividing line. Result as obtained by Duchinski: Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des intrus [intruders], who must be chased back across the Dnieper
Capital Volume 1 Marx uses the phrase, ‘In the ancient Asiatic and other ancient modes of production’
Capital Vol 3. Part 6, Marx clearly distinguishes three sets of pre-capitalist landed property relations: Asiatic, slave & serf based forms.
" The Russian commune (obshchina) is the natural basis for oriental despotism " - Engels 1874
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