I'm A Pessimist Because Of Intelligence, But

How Many Times Have I Wondered If It Is Really Possible To Forge Links With A Mass Of People When One Has Never Had Strong Feelings For Anyone, Not Even One's Own Parents: If It Is Possible To Have A Collectivity When One Has Not Been Deeply Loved Oneself By Individual Human Creatures. Hasn't This Had Some Effect On My Life As A Militant--has It Not Tended To Make Me Sterile And Reduce My Quality As A Revolutionary By Making Everything A Matter Of Pure Intellect, Of Pure Mathematical Calculation?

The Philosophy Of Praxis Does Not Aim At The Peaceful Resolution Of Existing Contradictions In History And Society, But Is The Very Theory Of These Contradictions. It Is Not The Instrument Of Government Of The Dominant Groups In Order To Gain The Consent And Exercise Hegemony Over The Subaltern Classes. It Is The Expression Of Subaltern Classes Who Want To Educate Themselves In The Art Of Government And Who Have An Interest In Knowing All Truths, Even The Unpleasant Ones, And In Avoiding The Impossible Deceptions Of The Upper Class, And Even More Their Own.

It Indicates A Person Who Has Not Only Good Manners But Who Possesses A Sense Of Balance, A Sure Mastery Of Himself, A Moral Discipline That Permits Him To Subordinate Voluntarily His Own Selfish Interest To The Wider Interests Of The Society In Which He Lives. The Gentleman, Therefore Is A Cultural Person In The Noblest Sense Of The Word, If By Culture We Mean Not Simply Wealth Of Intellectual Knowledge But Also The Ability To Fulfil One's Duty And Understand One's Fellow Man By Respecting / Every Principle, Every Opinion, Every Faith That Is Sincerely Professed.

The Starting-point Of Critical Elaboration Is The Consciousness Of What One Really Is, And Is 'knowing Thyself'as A Product Of The Historical Processes To Date, Which Has Deposited In You An Infinity Of Traces, Without Leaving An Inventory.

I Would Like You To Understand Completely, Also Emotionally, That I'm A Political Detainee And Will Be A Political Prisoner, That I Have Nothing Now Or In The Future To Be Ashamed Of In This Situation. That, At Bottom, I Myself Have In A Certain Sense Asked For This Detention And This Sentence, Because I've Always Refused To Change My Opinion, For Which I Would Be Willing To Give My Life And Not Just Remain In Prison. That Therefore I Can Only Be Tranquil And Content With Myself.