james daly wrote:
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> I only used "Marxism" because it was
> being used in the thread. I prefer "Marx's thought" which Marxism isn't
> always.
This is tricky. "Marx's thought" is a merely ink&paper except insofar as it is enacted in living bodies -- most if not all of whom probably call themselves "Marxists," adherents of "Marxism."
But it is trickier yet. If there is a revolution, most of the marchers in the streets during the months and weeks before the generals begin to doubt the loyalty of their troops -- most of those marchers will never have read a word of Marx or have the slightest idea what "critique of political economy" or "commodity fetishism" mean. And yet those marchers will be the only real existence of "Marx's thought," and if those marchers never appear, then Marx's thought will be dead.
And neither "Marx's thought" nor "Marxism" is a movement. The name of the movement is socialism.
Carrol