He wasn't adamant about not being a Marxist, he said it exactly one time and it was about a specific thing the French Workers' Party was doing. I really don't like how that one phrase has been twisted so much.
The French Workers' Party were what we'd call ultra-leftists now. They refused to seriously attempt reform or have electoral gains. Marx helped them write a list of short term goals he thought were achievable through reformist, electoral means, and they were good policies. Things like reduction of the workday to 8 hours and a ban on child labor. The party however thought the platform was only useful in swaying the working class to instigate revolution, and the policies were impossible to implement otherwise.
So Marx got sick of these people for refusing to at least try to do something, and the phrase was more like "If these people are Marxists, then I'm not one." And he said this in a private letter to Engels. It wasn't something he even said publicly.
the rest of what that libertarian is saying just sounds like he heard the "i'm not a marxist" quote and then made up what he thought he meant in his head. "solutions which he himself was willing to admit didn't work." what the hell does that even mean? Marx sitting down and saying "Here's some impossible nonsense I'm writing for no reason lol"
He wasn't adamant about not being a Marxist, he said it exactly one time and it was about a specific thing the French Workers' Party was doing. I really don't like how that one phrase has been twisted so much.
The French Workers' Party were what we'd call ultra-leftists now. They refused to seriously attempt reform or have electoral gains. Marx helped them write a list of short term goals he thought were achievable through reformist, electoral means, and they were good policies. Things like reduction of the workday to 8 hours and a ban on child labor. The party however thought the platform was only useful in swaying the working class to instigate revolution, and the policies were impossible to implement otherwise.
So Marx got sick of these people for refusing to at least try to do something, and the phrase was more like "If these people are Marxists, then I'm not one." And he said this in a private letter to Engels. It wasn't something he even said publicly.
the rest of what that libertarian is saying just sounds like he heard the "i'm not a marxist" quote and then made up what he thought he meant in his head. "solutions which he himself was willing to admit didn't work." what the hell does that even mean? Marx sitting down and saying "Here's some impossible nonsense I'm writing for no reason lol"