The racist remark about the Albanians was made by a certain James
Robertson, who is the grand poobah of the World Spartacist League, at a
meeting in NYC. James Robertson and Karl Marx have little in common.
Louis Proyect
At 11:39 AM 10/30/97 -0800, you wrote:
>In response to Ricardo, I didn't know I had a "rosy picture" of Marx's
>theory of colonialism. What I said was that he didn't really have a
>_theory_ of colonialism beyond that of (white) settler colonialism.
>
>BTW, is it true (as some have alleged) that Marx refered to Albanians as
>"goat-fuckers"?
>
>
>in pen-l solidarity,
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