Yes, that's true. There's Marx's letter to Kugelmann dated March 14, 1883 at seventeen minutes to three, for instance, in which he writes, "You know, Kugie, I think after mulling it over I have to say that the accumulation of capital, for all its anarchic, contradictory, casino-like, devil-take-the hindmost characteristics, is a veritable engine of growth and is all in all a fine thing. I'm really sorry that I have wasted so much of my time and that of my readers and followers trashing it. I'm certainly thankful that I'm no Marxist. I'm sorry too if I have seemed to be cantankerous and carbuncular at times. It makes me ill. In fact, at the moment I'm having a long wave of nausea which seems to be selling me short." The unsent letter remains sealed at Clerkenwell Green on instructions from Engels. It is not to be opened until we get a real winner one day. Just to keep us carrying the picnic basket up the hill for another several hundred years.
Ralph
Doug Henwood wrote:
michael a. lebowitz wrote:
He should have sold short-- like a good Marxist.
How is that good Marxism? Didn't Marx write a lot about capitalism's immense powers to grow? Or is this just the latest in a long line of reasons why KM was no Marxist?
Doug
