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[email protected] wrote: > "But I have to add that Guy (who I am glad to hear is still with > us) once told me that he did not consider himself a Marxist." > > And we have Engels's word that Marx said the same > thing about himself too. > > > "Ce qu'il y a de certain c'est que moi, > je ne suis pas Marxiste." > http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1882/letters/82_11_02.htm > Actually, this was a reference to someone's obviously mistaken belief that Proudhon was a Marxist ["what is known in France"] as Engels makes clear in this letter: Now what is known as ‘Marxism’ in France is, indeed, an altogether peculiar product — so much so that Marx once said to Lafargue: ‘Ce qu'il y a de certain c'est que moi, je ne suis pas Marxiste.’ [If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist] ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
