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I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.

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.

Well you can be the son of a Marxist and not necessarily be a Marxist in all your views.

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 mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.

Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations.

I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism.