Re: Einstein the Marxist

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> mh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 01/05/01 04:43PM >>>
Charles:

>CB: I believe the following statement is inaccurate:
>
>"Einstein was a Marxist ..."

Check out Einstein's article written for Monthly Review in 1949
(reprinted in Monthly Review May 2000):


http://www.monthlyreview.org/598einst.htm

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CB: Yes, I already knew that Einstein was for socialism, but not all people 
declaring
for socialism consider themselves Marxists.  In the above article Einstein does 
not
specifically say he is a Marxist, but maybe he is, and just never specifically 
said
it. On the other hand, he was aware of what I said first - that some socialists 
are
not Marxists - and so may have been trying to indicate that about himself by not
specifically mentioning Marxism.

It certainly would add to the prestige of Marxism, if he were, but I usually 
don't try
to make claims for very famous people being Marxists or in a Marxist party 
unless it
is explicit from them.