What is the “Asiatic Mode of Production”? What is the meaning of an Orientalist binary in the midst of historical materialist dialectics? Does the existence of an Orientalist binary reflect the commonalities between Marxist historiography, rooted in this “Asiatic Mode of Production,” and the myth of a primitive state of nature in the stages model progressing towards industrial capitalism favoured by the Scottish Enlightenment–the dominant reading in the 19th century?
Do we fail to perceive this binary because we also fail to perceive the Othering binary at the core of “Scientific vs Utopian Socialism” discourse? What part of binary thinking is scientific, historically grounded, or dialectical? How well is Othering ideological nonconformity with bourgeois idealism as an affront to cooperative egalitarianism working out for the Political Marxist project overall?

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Edit: Oh here’s this one now as well ahaha. Are you embodying all the moral indignation you claim to oppose right now

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