p.

6.

power to keep them on 5 days a week, & to improve their
conditions of work; & I disapproved of Chamberlain
& [Simon?] & Hoare & such people, & connected
them with the Conservative party. But I was thinking
in a muddled way, or not at all, & only sliding
about the surface. I always felt that it was wrong that
you and I could spend £5 in an evening & yet some
man & wife & 2-3 children would be pleased to have
that much to live on for 2 weeks. But I could
always justify that by thinking that we did not do it
very often, & even when we did, we were pretty
broke for a week or two afterwards. And I could
also justify myself by saying that I did work hard for
my money, but I never really considered my
advantages of education & opportunity & family & special
apprenticeship. I used to worry generally, about inequalities
in money & wealth, but in a very wrong & muddled &
not at all a Socialist way

I dont ask or aim for complete equality now or ever that would
be a calamity & a failure. But what I do aim for is
complete equality of education _ that is, primary education
& opportunity for all. An end to the frightful inequalities
of money - an end or somewhere near an end, to
inheritance. An end ot class, & this horrible
snobbishness. And in other words, really, an end
to our whole blasted system.

Now, what has caused my development , & what
has caused me to begin thinking, as I think, more
clearly? More than anything else, I think, it
has been my contact & dealings with the Regular