On 12/12/06, Mark Lause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It's possible Marx wrote something like this, but these words just don't
sound like him. They're quoted on various blogs, etc. but without an
attributed source that I have seen.
Periodically, making quotes attributed to famous people has always been a
cottage industry. Now they're urban legends and always outrun any attempt
to correct them.
There's even a book called "They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes,
Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions" by Paul Boller, ed.
For example, Lenin is said to have said, "The capitalists will sell us
the rope with which to hang them."
But: > There may be truth in the much-quoted remark that Lenin is
alleged to have made about the capitalists' eagerness to sell their
goods (the profit motive is, after all, unideological), but it is
almost certainly a fake. Lenin was supposed to have made his
observation to one of his close associates, Grigori Zinoviev, not long
after a meeting of the Politburo in the early 1920s, but there is no
evidence that he ever did. Experts on the Soviet Union reject the rope
quote as spurious. <
Boller, Paul F.(Editor). They Never Said It : A Book of Fake Quotes,
Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions. Cary, NC, USA: Oxford
University Press, Incorporated, 1990. p 64.
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/loyolamarymount/Doc?id=10087095&ppg=91
Copyright (c) 1990. Oxford University Press, Incorporated. All
rights reserved.
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Jim Devine / "The human being is in the most literal sense a political
animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can
individuate itself only in the midst of society." -- Karl Marx.
