Marx 1870 letter to Meyer and Vogt

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	other
Producer	Karl Marx
Coverage	1870
Works using it	2

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Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Freund (1987a)	Marx letter of 1870, in Marx and Engels on Colonialism (1959)	1870	Quoted as an analogy that capital maintains power by exploiting divisions among workers.
Freund (1987b)	Karl Marx, 1870 letter to Meyer and Vogt, in Marx and Engels on Colonialism (1959)	1870	Quoted analogically to argue that capital deliberately exploits ethnic and racial divisions among workers.