That's it, thanks. Fortunately I have both the German MEW and the English MECW. The quote (double embedded hearsay!) is in MECW vol. 43, 353-58.
jks
>From: Thomas Seay <entheogens at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Re: "I am not a Marxist" Le Voila' Justin
>Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 22:31:05 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Justin,
>
>I think MAYBE this is what you are looking for:
>
><<ce qu'il y a de certain c'est que moi, je ne suis
>pas Marxiste"
>
>("What is certain is that myself, I am not marxist")
>
>Ibid., p.11. Marx's famous remark, quoted by Engels in
>a letter to Eduard Bernstein, can be found in Marx and
> Engels, Werke, Vol. 35. p.388
>
>
>--- Thomas Seay <entheogens at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Justin, I dont know in which letter he might have
> > said
> > that but I got the following from L'Humanite'
> > (French
> > CP) website:
> >
> > On sait qu'à la suite de la lecture d'un texte de
> > Jules Guesde le présentant comme le bon génie qui
> > apportait la " conscience " à la
> > classe ouvrière, Karl Marx eut ce mot : " Si c'est
> > cela le marxisme, alors moi-même je ne suis pas
> > marxiste...
> >
> > << it is known that at the end of a reading of a
> > text
> > by Jules Guesde presenting him as the good genius
> > who
> > brought consciousness to the working class, Karl
> > Marx
> > had these words to say: 'if it is that that is
> > marxism, then I am not marxist myself>>
> >
> > I dont know if this was said in a letter or
> > aloud...possibly he said it some other time also,
> > but
> > it makes sense that he might have said this in
> > French
> > in response to a book written by a francophone.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Thomas
> >
> >
> > --- Justin Schwartz <jkschw at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Can someone give me a cire to the letter where
> > > Engles reports Marx as saying
> > > (in French), "I am not a Marxist?" Thanks, jks
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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