As a Marxist, Carr didn't have actual parents, instead he had two archetypes of the class structure he was born into. This led Carr, from the age of four onwards, to refer to his father as 'Archetypal Domineering Victorian Patriarch' and his mother as 'Archetypal Submissive Victorian Matriarch'. This annoyed his parents so much that they sent him off to boarding school to avoid his constant Marxist classification of everything.