[Peter Libra]

Saw "New Posts For You" when I got back to FR. Thought I was to get some flak, maybe I will but can I take it in good part. Another great book on the East End of London is:

The People of the Abyss.
Jack London. 1908.

American author London, bought second hand clothes and slummed it in the East End. He said he was a sailor down on his luck. He slammed the British Empire for it's rotten treatment of the poorer classes. With which I had to agree. Better things came with David Lloyd George and his old age pension and workman's compensation 1911.

[Patriotic1]

I thought you'd get flak too. Marx was shaped by the misery he saw about him.

So here's my "flak": his solutions caused even more misery for even more people.

But I don't think that people are aware of how horrific things were for the regular person back then. Even if what I read was for a small minority of people, it was unjust.