Marx on "Marxists"

Phil Gasper ptrg at sirius.com
Sat Aug 15 10:31:08 PDT 1998



>At 05:03 PM 8/14/98 -0700, Phil Gasper wrote:
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>>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.
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>Can you supply the year?
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>Many thanks.
>
>Chris Burford

I'm relying on McLellan's *Karl Marx: His Life and Thought* (Harper, 1973), p.443. McLellan cites Marx and Engels *Werke* (Berlin, 1956), vol.35, p.388, but he doesn't give a year.

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