It was inevitable that I should become a Socialist ultra, a Blanquist, indeed a communist. I carried about a medallion with Marx's head on it in my pocket. I think I regarded it as a sort of talisman... [Marx] had a profound critical intelligence and was in some sense even a prophet.
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