Ian Dunt

I spent every Saturday for about three years on Southampton High Street handing out socialist worker party newspapers.

Exactly the same.

I embraced that dogma as eagerly as I had religion.

And the things you end up doing, but my memories of how I behaved when I was a Marxist are of constant use.

I wish that they were less useful in this world, but they're of constant use.

Why is that?

So, for instance, your primary thought is your tribal identity.

I am a Marxist.

I am representing Marxism.

The ends justifies the means.

We must triumph.

This is what we are.

That's what my identity is.

So then something new happens.

Let's say, oh, Tony Blair goes to war in Kosovo, OK?

That was one of the things that happened when I was in this party in 1999.

You know, he made terrible mistakes later, but Kosovo's really good military intervention saved a lot of lives.

A really brave thing to do, and that was not American-led, that was British-led, getting the Americans involved.

And it just sort of doesn't fit.

It doesn't fit your category and your assumptions.