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Socialist MP beats off bid to paint him as tool of the ultra-left
The roots of the Labour Party are essentially democratic, essentially socialist, essentially community.

EVEN though he died more than 15 years before the Labour Party was founded, Karl Marx took centre stage yesterday in the debate over its future.

Leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn was asked repeatedly whether he was a Marxist in an interview for the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show.

He was quizzed amid claims that a tiny ultra-left sect was using his campaign as a vehicle to infiltrate Labour as part of a “revolutionary strategy.”

He then turned the tables on Mr Marr, saying: “We all owe something to him. Probably, inside, even you do. Do you think you do?”

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