When I was very young, I had not read Marx.

When I was very young, I had not read Marx. I was a socialist because ‘feelings’. It ‘felt’ fairer to aim to create and maintain a society that had humanitarian and egalitarian aspirations - something beyond simply perpetuating the law of the capitalist jungle.

I, like I suspect many others, thought that the right and left were arguing about moral and economic structures of societal organisation.

Then I actually read Marx.
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