[Marxism] (fwd) Socialists and/or communists?]

[Les Schaffer]

[ forwarded from Einde.  ... Einde, if you are around this weekend, i 
will call Hans and see if we can get this problem fixed. ]



Aaron Aarons wrote:
>> From: "Joaquin Bustelo" <jbustelo at gmail.com>

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>
>> Marx and Engels were never comfortable with the term "socialist" and 
>> somewhat chagrined that it came to be identified with their 
>> followers, as Engels made a point of stressing late in his life in 
>> the introductions to the Communist Manifesto, if I remember right.
>
> I haven't been able to locate this, and it seems a strange thing for 
> somebody to say who had, around that time or later, written a pamphlet 
> entitled "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific".
>
IIRC Marx and Engels were dissatisfied that their followers called
themselves "social democrats". I can't recall any expressions of
discomfort about teh use of the description "socialists" although they
considered themselves communists.

Einde O'Callaghan