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...' | Photo: Christian Thiergan / Wikimedia Commons.

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.

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