 Burke’s apparent change of affiliation from Whig to Tory is much-debated. For most of his career, he was regarded as a moderate reforming Whig, campaigning against the corruption and brutality of the East India Company. Only at the end did he become the Tory scourge of Revolution. Indeed, Reflections is liberal compared to Letters on a Regicide Peace five years later, which demanded a war abroad and repression at home to extirpate revolutionary infection. The 19th century regarded him as a liberal, treating his later writings as an aberration—an interpretation reversed in the 20th century. Marx scathingly dismissed Burke as an opportunist: