My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.
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Well you can be the son of a Marxist and not necessarily be a Marxist in all your views.
I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
I still think like a Marxist in many ways.
I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.
I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.
My father was an ardent socialist for many years.
Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.
It is a weird thing, because most people tend to get more conservative as they get older, but I find myself going the opposite way. I am sure that by the end I will be selling Marxist pamphlets on the Holloway Road.
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