1. Before he died
     Karl Marx told one of his friends:
     "I have lived long enough
     to be able to say
     that i am not a Marxist."

2. To be a Marxist,
     according to the logic of Das Kapital,
     is to maintain
     that the best thing to do
     is to wait patiently
     till Capitalism
     has fulfilled its historic mission.

3. To be a Marxist
     according to the logic of Das Kapital,
     is to step back,
     take and academic view of things,
     and watch the self-satisfied Capitalists
     dig their own graves.

4. To be a Marxist,
     according to the logic of Das Kapital,
     is to let economic evolution
     do its work
     without ever attempting
     to give it a push.