Marx & "Development"

[Dr. Fish]

Hey comrades,
I've heard of Marx's rigid conception of dialectical materialism, where the narrative of the class struggle is rigid and must follow several euro-centric steps. A key point where this was mentioned in when he said of the Indians that though he felt sympathetic to them, that they had to undergo the misery of colonization and capitalism in order to develop an urban working clas which would then oppose the colonization and exploitation of foreign capital, and then overthrow and expropriate it, following the rigid guide of European development. I was wondering if anyone actually knew exactly where Marx wrote this. Would anyone post a link or something of the document that he wrote that?

[Art Vandelay]

Im not sure of what passage you are referring to specifically, so hopefully someone else can help you with that, but what it sounds like Marx was discussing was the necessity of the development of the forces of production, to the point where an industrial proletariat, capable of overthrowing the capitalist mode of production, comes into existence. I suppose this could be considered a 'euro-centric' or 'rigid' conception of historical materialism, but it certainly isn't an example of a 'rigid conception of dialectical materialism' since dm stands in direct opposition to a rigidity or dogma and on its own makes no attempts at sociological analysis. HM is simply the by product of the DM methodology applied to sociological development.