Marx was "guilty" of non-Marxist thinking? What does that mean? Is there some Marxish Vatican to assay the purity of thought? Was Marx really onto something when he said he wasn't a Marxist?
I was employing irony when I said that Marx was guilty of non-Marxist thinking. There is no Marxish Vatican, although every self-described Marxist is entitled to evaluate an idea put forward in the name of Marxism as to its legitimacy. For example, James Heartfield invokes Marxism on behalf of stepped up usage of DDT. I think this is whack, myself. But I have no power to excommunicate him or anybody else for that matter. I can only exercise my innate gift of sarcasm to prejudice others against such silly ideas. Finally, you don't really understand what Marx was saying. When he was presented with some silly ideas made by the French in his name, he said something like "If that is Marxism, I am not a Marxist." Nothing has changed with respect to the French and silly ideas, in my opinion.
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