Former UK PM Tony Blair reveals he 'toyed with Marxism' 
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has revealed that he "toyed with Marxism" as a young man after being inspired by Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. "I suddenly thought the world's full of these extraordinary causes and injustices and here's this guy Trotsky who...went out to change the world," Blair said. He eventually went on to reject traditional left-wing politics.