Thread 24606952

According to Engels, Marx grew so irritated at
misinterpretations of his doctrine that towards the end of his life, he declared: ‘All I know is that I am not a Marxist.’

>My evidence?
>A letter found by Epberg
>No you can't see it
>It's lost

>>24606989
You can see it though?
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1890/letters/90_08_05.htm

>"Judaism and Christianity are just snakeskins of the Human Spirit"
>humanity all but casts off Marxism like a dead snakeskin
ISHYGDDT

>>24607006
That was my obnoxious way of asking for a source. Really you could have posted it in your OP but thx

>>24607006
>But instead of this too many of the younger Germans simply make use of the phrase historical materialism (and everything can be turned into a phrase) only in order to get their own relatively scanty historical knowledge — for economic history is still as yet in its swaddling clothes! — constructed into a neat system as quickly as possible, and they then deem themselves something very tremendous. And after that a Barth can come along and attack the thing itself, which in his circle has indeed been degraded to a mere phrase.
Who's Barth

>>24607389
Just copy and paste on google vra

>>24607818
Karl Barth, search him up

>>24606952 (OP)
I'm convinced that Camatte and Land were the only two people to actually understand what he was getting at

how is true marxism any different from the lefty lunatic marxism though.

>>24606952 (OP)
based Marx dabbing on retard masses,
is this a refutation of himself?
Do I begin with the Marx-Engel reader? I'm going to start there, honestly it's written pretty good just by the introduction.

>>24609510
Karl Barth was a Christian writer who has nothing to do with Marxism and that letter is dated from 1890 when Karl Barth was like 10 (he wrote mainly during 20th c).

>>24611858
He must have been a child genius. Or Marx was debating 10 year olds to level the playing field

>>24611769
Only Marxist worth reading is Mao, everyone else is varying degrees of idiot

Mao was a moron too but his stupidity was so deep it wrapped around to genius. “On Practice” unironically changed my life and how I approach studying

>>24611919
>On practice
Not on contradictions...sigh.