"At 21, I discovered repression and injustice - that the army would shoot students with real bullets," he says.
Bucket List, which opens at the Pleasance Dome on the Edinburgh fringe in August, is a nightmarish anti-fairytale that will chime with anybody who has found themselves suffering a great injustice, discovered that there is no redress because they are small and poor and have no voice, and knows that those responsible are rich and powerful.
And this relegation of rationality to a strictly instrumental role is, as we discover in Book IV, constitutive of injustice as Plato understands it.
So it's heartening to discover two books that begin to tell his story and remedy this injustice for the next generation.
Within the commission, leaders from the island's main religions would form a "compassionate council" to help victims "discover the truth, understand what happened and help remedy any sense of injustice", Samaraweera said.
When grievous wrongs are done or endemic suffering exposed, when injustice is discovered or opportunity denied, watch the institutions of government and business and charity.
Her eyes now opened to racial injustice, she discovered "the sense of purpose that would define the rest of her life".
He writes of having "burst into loud laughter" when he read the seminal passage in which Jean-Jacques tells how, as a child, he discovered the roots of all injustice, "violence and injustice," when he was falsely accused of breaking a comb.
To do so is to discover in its economic critique of unfettered markets, condemnation of capitalism's social injustices, angry reportage, and analysis of politics, poverty, feminism and urbanism all the power, passion and incisiveness which Marx rightly heralded.
As we discover what it means to be spiritual, we often become an advocate for exposing injustices.
