It is a position which, accepts that there are collective social interests best served by collective action via the state, and that the state is best equipped to deal with the needs of disadvantaged groups. It is the position which has given rise to compulsory secondary education and more access to tertiary education, to comprehensive publicly provided health care, to equal opportunity legislation and a state policy of multiculturalism. I can't freely participate in society if I can't read or write. No wonder people are aggressive and selfish. They are the behaviours our society rewards.
Life is a jungle out there, the conservatives say.
Well, they planted it. I don't see why someone should receive a better education and more wealth just because of who their parents were. For Marxists, welfare measures either directly serve the interests of the capital owning classes, or are at best the small victories won by the working class in the arena of struggle of the state. I be free. There is no human nature.