The final book Deleuze was working on before his untimely death, ‘Grandeur de Marx’, has an almost mythical status among followers and readers of Deleuze’s philosophy. Marx occupies a relatively privileged place in Deleuze’s work (perhaps just behind Spinoza, Bergson, and Nietzsche), especially in his two works with Felix Guattari: Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus, but which can be found even earlier in his discussion of Marx and revolution in Difference & Repetition. But the exact relationship between Deleuze, and the system of thought he developed, and Marx or Marxism, has remained somewhat ambiguous. I don’t think I’m going to be able to solve that here, but I wanted to collect together some pieces of information which I…