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Engels to Konrad Schmidt, Aug. 5 1890: Just as Marx used to say, commenting on the French "Marxists" of the late [18]70s: "All I know is that I am not a Marxist." original (French): "Tout ce que je sais, c'est que je ne suis pas Marxiste." https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1890/letters/90_08_05.htm …

1 the Syrian govt represents a local capitalism of the period of formal domination, based on nation-state, social welfare, non-sectarianism, modernism, women's rights--under attack from the demodernizing avant garde of capital in its real domination; as Marx schematized capital..

2 in formal domination,capital takes over the world, in real domination, it transforms the world into itself and destroys every human value.Marx would recognize the Syrian govt as more human & humane, fighting a gallant if quixotic war against the unmixed evil of total capitalism