Marx and Malleability

[Charles Brown]

>> Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/18/00 12:40
I think, however, the fault doesn't lay with Marx as much as with his 
followers. The problem is that there's no reason to restrict one's source 
of insights to only Marx and Engels. We can learn from all sorts of other 
socialist theorists (including the utopians). BTW, Marx himself never said 
that he was the only source of Truth.

Justin is right that utopian descriptions of a possible socialism are 
useful. As Draper [sorry!] points on in his description of Marx & Engels' 
views of the utopians, they agreed. Workers' discussion of utopian schemes, 
they thought, were part of the process of workers's self-education and 
self-liberation.

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CB: Does Draper recognize that Engels is also a source on the Marxist view of 
democracy ( etc.) ?