Abstract: This article provides a new insight into Marx’s’ understanding of colonialism. In highlighting the method of dialectical inquiry used by Marx in an undelivered speech document (November 1867) it reveals how the essential structure of British colonial domination of Ireland, was not just a condition of existence of economic or political dependency but a constantly evolving social process, which moved through differing phases of development.
As a systematic process of colonial repression, it penetrated all aspects of the Irish social formation and to such an extent that the colonised had to live under ‘abominable conditions of existence.
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