My political viewers are an intrinsic part of my view of the truth under how I see life.

The label Marxist, which was put on you, I mean do you see that in any way helpful?

I have claimed myself to be a Marxist, I mean it's not something that I deny.

What I mean by that is that my reading of Marx from a very early age helped me enormously

to understand history and therefore to understand where we are in history and therefore to understand

what we have to envisage as a future thinking about human dignity and justice.

In that sense is it still helpful today?

If we look at what is happening to the world and the decisions being taken every day

and all those decisions really made in the name of one priority, that priority of increasing, ever increasing profit.

At that moment Marx doesn't seem quite so obsolete does he?

In your heart you're a storyteller.

Yes, that's what you are.

Yes, I completely agree with you. I mean if I feel that I'm a storyteller, that's all.

That's all, that's all.

But the trouble with storytellers is they can be seen as very dangerous.

I'm well dangerous to what and to whom?

That's the question.

If I am dangerous to those who run the new economic order, I'm proud of that.

Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft Radio.

Today we have back on the show for, I don't know, the fourth, fifth, sixth time, my good friend, John aka the Lakebriot guy.

This time to talk about the work of British Marxist, art critic and polymath, John Berger.

As we mentioned in the episode, Berger, somebody who might be well known throughout Europe in the Middle East,

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