•> SOCIAL SCIENTIST otherwise, of Marx* reading of Oriental societies, or of the notion of the Asiatic mode of production are not our concern here, it is more important for the purposes of this exercise that to marx, the Oriental state was the "state and landlord rolled into one", the Czarist state "bred the capitalist class", or the phenomenon of Bonapartism abalanced class interests. How all these fit into Marx's overall conceptualization of state and political power is what we are interested in. Interestingly, recent "economic miracles", the East Asian economies—South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore—or even Brazil for that matter, show distinct parallels with the idea of the "state breeding the capitalist class". 36. The German Ideology, MECW, vol.5, P. 46. 37. Ibid., [emphasis added] 38. Ibid., p. 44. 39. MECW, Vol. 5, pp. 47-48. [emphasis added) 40. K. Marx, Capital, Vol.1, Progress Publishers, Moscow (dated?) p. 39. 41. MECW, Vol.6, pp. 209-210. 42. Ibid., p. 211. 43. MECW, Vol. 24, p. 384 (emphasis added], the expression "from that day" need not be taken literally since it only emphasises the tremendous impact of the legislation. The basis of the power evidently, was not law but "union and common action". The Act mentioned above is described by the MECW editors thus: "An Act to repeal the Laws relative to the Combination of Workmen" and for other purpose therein mentioned [21st of June, 1824]. 44. Ibid,, p. 386 [emphasis added]. 45. Ibid., The Workingmen of Europe in 1877, p. 221. [emphasis added] * 46. Ibid., p. 222. 47. K. Marx, The Class Struggles in France 1848-50, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1975, p. 33. [emphasis added] 48. Ibid., p. 37. 49. V.I. Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 24, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1980, p. 39. 50. K.Marx,TheseonFeuerbach,MESW,p.28. 51. Ibid., p. 30. 52. G. Lukacs, The Ontology of Social Being 3. Labour, Merlin Press, London. 1980, p. 3 53. CJ, Arthur, Dialectics of Labour: Marx and his relation to Hegel, Basil Blackwell, 1986. p. 5.