"All I know is I'm not a Marxist."--Karl Marx , commenting on the hypocrisy of Marxism
2007-01-18 07:55:07 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Big woop
2007-01-18 07:58:19 · answer #1 · answered by scruffy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clearly you have taken this quote out of context, or misunderstood it. Karl Marx was not 'commenting on the hypocrisy of Marxism' by saying that he was not a Marxist. He was just being modest. Marx wasn't too happy with the idea of naming this philosophy after him because it already existed. Marx didn't invent Communism. There was already a Communist Party, and Marx was a member of it, before he wrote 'the Communist Manifesto' and his other many works. In fact he wrote the Manifesto as a way of explaining to many people in simple terms the philosophy of Communism.
However, many people saw that Marx did indeed add a great deal of insight, thought and strategy to Communism and it is for this reason that one particular strain was named after him, and it has come to be the most widely known.
If you all read a little more about Marxism - with an open mind - I think you would find that a great deal of what he said makes a lot of sense, even today. His philosophy is based on the simple premise that the way the world was then, and is today, is not what it should be. War, racism, violence, sexism, homophobia and poverty don't have to be the defining characteristics of our world.
Another world is possible.
2007-01-20 23:11:32 · answer #2 · answered by melissa b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stand up tall for your hero
Who the F cares what a commie said 75 yrs ago or more
2007-01-18 16:00:22 · answer #3 · answered by bob b 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Typical lie of denial still in use today by liberals.
2007-01-18 16:00:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋