There Is No Glory In Punishing

An American Professor Complained That A Crypto-marxist Like Me Was Invited In The Usa, And I Was Denounced By The Press In Eastern European Countries For Being An Accomplice Of The Dissidents. None Of These Descriptions Is Important By Itself; Taken Together, On The Other Hand, They Mean Something. And I Must Admit That I Rather Like What They Mean.

Politics Is Not What It Pretends To Be, The Expression Of A Collective Will. Politics Breathes Well Only Where This Will Is Multiple, Hesitant, Confused, And Obscure Even To Itself.

My Role - And That Is Too Emphatic A Word - Is To Show People That They Are Much Freer Than They Feel, That People Accept As Truth, As Evidence, Some Themes Which Have Been Built Up At A Certain Moment During History, And That This So-called Evidence Can Be Criticized And Destroyed.

I Belong To That Generation Who, As Students, Had Before Their Eyes, And Were Limited By, A Horizon Consisting Of Marxism, Phenomenology And Existentialism. For Me The Break Was First Beckett's Waiting For Godot, A Breathtaking Performance.

Maybe The Target Nowadays Is Not To Discover What We Are But To Refuse What We Are.