'Just as Marx used to say about the French "Marxists" of the late seventies: "All I know is that I am not a Marxist."'
Engels. letter to Conrad Schidt, 5 August 1890, Collected Corres., Ed. Dona Torr, L&W, 1934 p 472
In message <Pine.GSO.3.95q.980815122355.18549C-100000 at uhunix1>, Stephen
E Philion <philion at hawaii.edu> writes
>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
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>TITLE(s): Karl Marx's theory of revolution / by Hal Draper.
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> 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.
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>On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Carrol Cox wrote:
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>> 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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-- Jim heartfield