ALEX HALL interviews PAUL HOLDEN, whose bombshell book uses leaked documents to expose how the Starmer faction used systematic dishonesty to seize power and reopen the door to the corrupting ecosystem of corporate lobbying and sleaze
‘Free love’ or ‘family values’ — is there a Marxist view?

The short answer is — there isn’t one.
Socialists have been known to argue at length about “the family” as well as every other social institution.
But Marxists don’t have a collective “position” on people’s personal relationships or domestic arrangements, as long as they are entered into freely, don’t involve violence, coercion, corruption, exploitation or greed, and don’t damage anyone else.
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