" The Communist Party and Karl Marx were names I had picked up on since coming to Blantyre, so I read what I could on the subject. The very last English essay I wrote in May 1961, before leaving school, was a biographical sketch of Karl Marx together with a synopsis of The Communist Manifesto, outlining Marx and Frederick Engels’s views of revolution as a consequence of the class struggle. "

― Stuart Christie , My Granny Made Me an Anarchist. The Christie File: Part 1, 1946 - 1964 (The cultural and political formation of a West of Scotland 'baby-boomer')