I believe in social justice and equality. I would call myself a socialist or a social democrat.
But I also believe in individual human freedom and - broadly speaking - in democracy.
I don't believe in the inevitability of revolution, nor in "dialectical materialism". I don't believe that history is governed by extra-human rules. Neither do I believe that all conflict in history is related to class conflict; neither that all politics and all culture is fundamentally about class conflict; neither that all economic activity is determined by class conflict. I question the need for a violent revolution and the advisability of a violent revolution. I vehemently and totally reject the idea of a "dictatorship of the proletariat" and the idea of any kind of dictatorship.
So I am not a Marxist.
But I also believe in individual human freedom and - broadly speaking - in democracy.
I don't believe in the inevitability of revolution, nor in "dialectical materialism". I don't believe that history is governed by extra-human rules. Neither do I believe that all conflict in history is related to class conflict; neither that all politics and all culture is fundamentally about class conflict; neither that all economic activity is determined by class conflict. I question the need for a violent revolution and the advisability of a violent revolution. I vehemently and totally reject the idea of a "dictatorship of the proletariat" and the idea of any kind of dictatorship.
So I am not a Marxist.