I identify as an anarchist, not a Marxist. But I'm very aware that this is as much a result of my age and birthplace as any the political ideas I've debated, read or tried to practice. But as Marx himself out it, we all create our own history, but not in circumstances of our choosing.

If I'd been born in the early 1900s in Europe, I might well have joined the Communist Party like Orwell did. If it was the late 1800s US, I might have been a libertarian individualist.

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