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TORY PM David Cameron finally admitted in Parliament yesterday that “Karl Marx was right,” writes Luke James.
Mr Cameron made the shock declaration at Prime Minister's Questions in answer to a mischievous question about Britain’s attitude to Russia.
Tory backbencher Tony Baldry quoted an article by the founder of communism in the New York Tribune urging Britain to oppose tsarist Russia’s “projects of annexation and aggrandisement.”
Mr Baldry quoted Marx as concluding that “the arrest of the Russian scheme of annexation…the interests of… democracy and of England go hand in hand.”
And the MP asked Mr Cameron whether the principle remained Britain’s foreign policy.
Mr Cameron protested that “I have not spent as much time studying Karl Marx as he has” but claimed sheepishly that “in this respect, Karl Marx was right.”
He added: “We should stand up very firmly against the Russian aggression that has taken place, and we led the way in Europe in making sure that there were sanctions.”
