English interference’ alone produced ‘the only social revolution ever heard of in Asia’ (ibid.: 131). This stasis is explained by the peculiar social relations of the ‘self-sufficing communities that constantly reproduce themselves in the same form’ (1867a: 358), which provide the economic foundation of ‘Oriental despotism’.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/en/sayer1.htm
"In the Russian vocabulary there is no such word as honour" - Karl Marx - 1853
Marx continued to develop the idea of the Asiatic Mode of Production from his journalistic writings in 1853 to the writing of Capital.
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
Edgar Snow gets the ' Asiatic mode of production' into his ' Red Star over China'.
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