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...important that I say this. Besides, a young person must understand the responsibility of being young, and if he is a student, must realize that there are other young people the same age who are not students. And if he is a college student, he must consider the young peasant and the young worker. He must speak the language of youth, not only the language of college students, to other college students...
...longer could repression for progress merely be directed against bankers and landowners. There were new potential enemies, masses of them. An Activist revolutionary scenario would have to contain the expected fascist reaction. Now repression might well have to be employed against small farmers and shop-owners and Portuguese peasant soldiers...
...Activist solution has terrible implications. Revolutionaries who wish to end violence must resort to it, socialists who fight to expand democracy to the economic and social sphere must limit it. Freedom fighters in Africa who want to end oppression must kill oppressed Portuguese peasant-soldiers. Vietnamese revolutionaries who seek an independent Vietnam make war against some of their own countrymen. Leon Trotsky, a warm and humane man, raced around in his special train in the Soviet Civil War and ordered deserters from the Red Army shot...
Still, Allende had plenty of admirers. Some were not even socialists, but sympathetic liberals who hoped that he could succeed in bridging the gulf between the poor and the wealthy. The poor, peasant and worker alike, idolized him. "I would be a hypocrite if I were to say that I am President of all Chileans," he once observed. They listened in awe as "Chicho" addressed them...
Cries and Whispers. Bergman's latest, filmed with a crimson colored Gothic expressionism reminiscent of Edvard Munch. Set in a turn of the century manor house, two sisters (Liv Ullmann and Ingrid Thulin) along with a peasant servant (Kari Sylwun) attend their dying sister (Harriet Andersson). Bergman uses the women schematically -- the Woman as Other -- to play out his 'nothingness' theme: the ultimate isolation of every human being, the tissue of lies that passes for communication between men, the meaningless of extra-human faith, the nothingness at the heart of it. Central...