“Now, remember to compliment him. You can compliment him on the Labor Party’s human-rights record.” “I can’t possibly do that,” I said. “Well, you must think of something.” “Actually, I have,” I said. “I was going to compliment him on his father.” I had read the prominent sociologist Ralph Miliband’s book The State in Capitalist Society. “What? You mean that Marxist?” Lord Lester said. “For all you know he might hate his father.”
More than a few British Marxists have really mediocre but powerful sons who worship capitalism and hate human rights.
