On Marx's "not a marxist"

Stephen E Philion philion at hawaii.edu
Sat Aug 15 15:30:26 PDT 1998


Carrol,

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.

Includes bibliographies and indexes. Partial cont.: 1. State and bureaucracy. 2 v. -- v. 2. The politics of

social classes -- v. 3. The "Dictatorship of the

Proletariat" -- v. 4. Critique of other socialisms.

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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