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...undoubtedly far too soon to proclaim the end of the urban guerrillas in the U.S. Sooner or later, however, the terrorists themselves may pay closer heed to a lesson that their hero Mao Tse-tung could have taught them. "Guerrilla warfare must fail," Mao wrote, "if its political objectives do not coincide with the aspirations of the people and their sympathy, cooperation and assistance cannot be gained...
...share the spirit of anarchism: its fascination with violence, its chaotic organization, its insistence on absolute freedom (an illusion that in the past has invariably led to tyranny). Often their cult is pseudo-religious, even monastic: it is consecrated to a dead or distant deity like Che Guevara or Mao Tse-tung; its communicants gather in intimate, almost confessional cells: and they observe a ritual secrecy that eventually cuts them off from society altogether. Their ideologies differ, but in general their rationale is that "the system" is incapable of real change and that the official violence of the government (police...
...reason the new terror often appears to be epidemic is that the tactics are so similar. The guerrillas all study the same texts?by Mao or Che or Carlos Marighella (see box, page 20). Instant communications, moreover, guarantee a sort of global cross-pollination of radicalism. Harvard Professor of Government Seymour Martin Lipset tells of the time he "asked a revolutionary in South America whether he kept in touch with developments in the U.S. He replied, 'We watch television. We saw everything at Berkeley...
...court costs in return for a light county jail sentence. I confessed but when time came for sentencing they tossed me into the penitentiary with one to life. That was 1960. I was eighteen years old. I've been here ever since. I met Marx Lenin, Trotsky, Engels, and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed...
...film's young children have an almost identical effect. In all recent Godard they have been a source of optimism, for they can grow up with a correct political education. Thus an adult male voice in See You at Mao (1969) occasionally reads sentences of a Communist history text to a young girl, who repeats them. Easy though this is to interpret as brainwashing, the absence of any criticism within the film reveals it as one of the purest hopes Godard still has. The thought that someone can learn the truth of history, and evolve a good way of thinking...