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The Importance of Socialism in the 1950s
My dad was born in 28. My mum was born in 32. They were not hippies. They were like people of the 50s growing up. It was, I think there's a sort of deeper thing, which is probably my dad was a socialist. He wasn't even a Maoist really remotely. But that must have been what got him into the idea. So it was, it was a strange existence. Strange in the sense that you're just trying to grow your own food all the time or in other ways. Well, if you were 21 in 1949, was it 49? If you're 21 in the late 40s, then for a bit, it seemed quite sed