'I am a Quaker and a Marxist. Some Friends will find this puzzling, but it is no problem for me...' Photo: Christian Thiergan / Wikimedia Commons.
Quaker and Marxist?
Muriel Seltman writes about reconciling the spiritual and the philosophical
I am a Quaker and a Marxist. Some Friends will find this puzzling, but it is no problem for me, as I moved seamlessly into this situation in the course of my life.
I was born in 1927 and, coming from a Jewish family, I heard heated arguments concerning the rise of Adolf Hitler, the Treaty of Versailles and everything that these entailed – including, of course, the treatment of Jews in Germany.