Curiously, when Marx was supposedly asked, just before his death, what he
would like to be remembered for, he apparently said that he doubted he would
be remembered for long and that if he had the time, he would probably
re-write much of his work. I cannot vouch for the story above, but clearly,
he would never have guessed that scholars, thinkers and politicians the
world over, would debate with the ghost of Marx for more than a century
after his death.
Cornel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mario Goveia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Re: Musings on crossing a hundred....
--- cornel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Vidyadhar,
I studied Marx and his writings hell of a lot in
student and post-student
days. Ok, this was many moons ago. However, I never
came across the view
that Marx said "question everything." I am just
curious about its source. Is
this attribution to Marx genuine in this case?
Mario muses:
If Karl Marx really suggested we question everything,
which is quite a common sense suggestion, one wonders
why he did not question his own basic assumption, that
a small cabal of elites could make better decisions
for entire economies than the weighted average
decisions of entire populations, and caused untold
economic misery and misallocation of resources until
abandoned recently.
