Marx, 1917, and Asiatic Societies
Marx, 1917, and Asiatic Societies

Summary/Abstract: Th is article asks whether the 1917 Russian revolution was a revolution againstMarx’s Das Kapital, as Gramsci claimed. Th e answer is that Marx changed his approachto historical development and, from the late 1850s onwards, adopted a multilinear ratherthan a unilinear theory of history. Th is put in question the idea that capitalism was a necessaryprelude to a fully communist society. Th e article fi nishes by asking what a fullycommunist society – one, according to Marx, based on needs rather than wants – mightlook like and the role of technology therein.

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