Hal Draper wrote pretty much the same interpretation of Marx's text (which I don't recall either, it's in a correspondence with someone in France I think). Steve
TITLE(s): Karl Marx's theory of revolution / by Hal Draper.
New York : Monthly Review Press, c1977-1990.
4v. 21 cm.
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On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Carrol Cox wrote:
> There must be a number of people on this list who can cite the exact
> text, which I can't, but I do remember its context, and it is a context
> which robs the phrase of more than antiquarian interest. He was
> referring to a specific small group of French communists who argued a
> theory that was in fact anti-marxist but they labelled it Marxist.
> Hence, if *that* is Marxism, then I'm not a marxist.
>
> Carrol
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