Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 05:22:21 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Marx - not a Marxist? (fwd)


> Jorn quotes gerry:
> > > too many
> > > "Marxists" have become "fundamentalists" -- which brings to mind Marx's
> > >  statement that he was not a Marxist
> I believe it was in the context of the formation of the German SPD.
> I believe there were lots of people running around calling themselves
> Marxists but were really still Lasalleans
> But I'm quite willing to be corrected.

This question is discussed in Joseph O'Malley and Keith Algozin ed. _Rubel
on Karl Marx_ (Cambridge University Press, 1981). See especially the essay
"The 'Marx legend,' or Engels, founder of Marxism" in that volume. Marx's
statement that "All I know is that I am not a Marxist" was directed
against, according to Engels, the *sectarian disciples* especially "'among
certain of the French' around 1870-80, but that his reproach also applied
to a certain group of intellectuals and students within the German party"
(_Rubel on Karl Marx_, p. 10).

Jerry



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