Growing into socialism
Many children have an acute sense of injustice, will feel righteous anger when they don’t get a “fair go” at an activity or when their opinion is dismissed by an adult. A child’s sense of injustice is egocentric but reasonable and it’s probably essential if the individual is to develop a wider sense of injustice in the world. From as long as I can remember I had that wider view. The root of it is in my family history, and specifically my mother’s recollections of her childhood. My mother’s parents were both from well-off backgrounds. Her father’s family were North Yorkshire coal merchants, her...