Revolution

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...in the stress and storm of Revolution the mass takes first importance. Yet we cannot get away from the fact that the individual too must play his part.

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Who of us has not muddled his private life? Perhaps it is impossible to serve two gods. If one gives oneself to an ideal to the uttermost one hardly ever also succeeds in one's private affairs. This is true not only of those obsessed by a social ideal. It is true of every ideal, art, letters, science.... You will find that your failure is the failure of us all who are dedicated to one purpose in life.

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Men of revolutionary vision and action are sprouting everywhere. Like wild flowers bursting and overpowering prison of cement roads they grow [in] Vietnam, Angola, Guetamal, Paris, and now even in the heart of the Steel Goliath. Little Davids strike hard and deep. Venceremos.

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Rigault typified the professional Bohemian and perpetual student still to be found today lurking purposelessly around the Café Flore or the Deux Magots of St.-Germain-des-Prés -- atheistic, amoral, left-wing, anti-Establishment, and lightly washed.

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...the attainment of our great objectives. The latter can only happen if we carry along with us all who instinctively believe in the rightness of our struggle and who seek to achieve the widest possible freedom and independence through revolution, so as to build a new life and a new society, wherein the individual may at least and unimpeded exercise his creative drive on behalf of the general good.

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You can't have a revolution unless you make it for yourself.

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Intellectuals, who are wont to reduce the social struggle to the most abstract and simple formulas, are inclined to underrate the tremendous scope of the social transformation before us. They think how easy it would be to put the right name into the ballot box. They forget what deep inner revolution must take place in the working masses; what amount of clear insight, of solidarity, of perseverance and courage, of proud fighting spirit is needed to vanquish the immense physical and spiritual power of capitalism.

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...rebels, militants, and revolutionaries are not born by immaculate conception.

Chronology :

March 12, 2020 : Revolution -- Added.
April 05, 2020 : Revolution -- Updated.

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