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He was a Marxist if anyone ever was.

No just kidding he was a Marxist becuz how can u not be one if your fucking name is in the title.

"If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist." - Marx, Karl

Does anyone know the context of this quote and what Marx, Karl meant?

Anyone? It was a tongue in cheek response to the french Marxism developing in France.

And what was Marx, Karl's main objection to this? Anyone? That revolution can be achieved through politics and without violence.

He was arguing with his son in law. Marx is a Marxist, I am not. Most of humanity is not. Shit sourced from the Young Hegelians is genocidal. I'll have nothing to do with it.

promethean75 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 05, 2023 5:45 pm "I'm proletariat but never a Marxist"

And that's fine. Marx wasn't a Marxist either, just a working man like yourself doing journalism and writing for news papers.

A "working" man?

Buddy, in his entire life, nobody EVER called Marx that. He did no "work" at all. He knew no workers personally, except for the one he molested, his housekeeper. And for his whole career, he sponged off his family, first draining their estate, and then off people like Engels. He never stopped complaining that he was not simply being paid for doing what he wanted to do...write page after page of horse-manure that was going to prove to be the most homicidal creed in history.

"Working man." As his own mother said of Karl, “I wish he’d spend less time writing about capital and more time making some.”

If this is truly how u feel Immanuel i think it's better that we stop seeing each other becuz i remain commited to the working classes and if u can't accept me for who i am, this relationship will always be frivolous and superficial. And i can't live my life like that anymore, Immanuel.

promethean75 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 05, 2023 10:00 pm i remain commited to the working classes

Then your name isn't Karl Marx. He was decidedly not that.

It's really interesting how you can tell which persons on this forum have never done hard labor on a farm before...

Let that sink in.