Marxism as Theory and movement

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri May 10 09:51:20 PDT 2002


A professor at Northern Michigan College in 1959 had this term paper on Marx submitted which he suspected from the first page was plagiarized. The source became clear when the paper concluded by saying something like "But so far his thought has had no practical consequenses." It was plagiarized from a 1905 encyclopedia.

It would be better if the name of the movement was simply 'socialism" rather than "marxism," but given that we are caught with the name, it is a bit presumptuous to predice too certainly what the the future of the "marxist movement" will be.

Carrol



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