"I am not a Marxist"

The quote "I am not a Marxist" by Karl Marx is really a misattribution. Although commonly credited to Marx, the quote is more likely to be a declaration made by one of his fans or interpreters. The expression recommends that Marx's ideas were gotten of context or twisted by later Marxist movements. Nevertheless, some interpret the quote to mean that Marx himself did not want to be associated with specific analyses of Marxism that he considered problematic or incomplete.