Immiseration, was Krugman on Marx

[Phil Gasper]

>In message <35D4880D.54551545 at Lorainccc.edu>, Tom Lehman
><uswa12 at lorainccc.edu> writes
>>Dear Doyle and Brad,
>>
>>Did Marx say or write about himself, " I am not a Marxist."
>>
>>Sincerely,
>>Tom
>
>
>Engels records in the colleted correspondence that Marx used to say, in
>response to over-eager protestations of 'Marxism', that 'all I can say
>is that I am glad I am not a Marxist'. That's from memory, but the
>collected correspondence edited by Dona Torr contains the letter, after
>Marx's death.
>--
>Jim heartfield

The exact quote is "what is certain is that I am no Marxist." Engels (in a
letter to Bernstein) says that Marx made the remark to Lafargue to express
his opinion about self-described "Marxists" in France. Liebknecht records a
similar remark somewhere.

Phil Gasper
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