Above All, Always Be Capable Of Feeling

The Amount Of Poverty And Suffering Required For A Rockefeller To Emerge, And The Amount Of Depravity Entailed In The Accumulation Of A Fortune Of Such Magnitude, Are Left Out Of The Picture, And It Is Not Always Possible For The Popular Forces To Expose This Clearly.

One Has To Grow Hard But Without Ever Losing Tenderness.

Revolution Cleanses Men, Improving Them As The Experimental Farmer Corrects The Defects Of His Plants.

And Yet Every So Often, The Heart Of America, Shuddering With Indignation, Sends A Nervous Spasm Through The Gentle Back Of The Andes, And Tumultuous Shock Waves Assault The Surface Of The Land. Three Times The Cuppola Of Proud Santo Domingo Has Collapsed From On High To The Rhythm Of Broken Bones And Its Worn Walls Have Opened And Fallen Too. But The Foundations They Rest On Are Unmoved, The Great Blocks Of The Temple Of The Sun Exhibit Their Gray Stone Indifferently; However Colossal The Disaster Befalling Its Oppressor, Not One Of Its Huge Rocks Shifts From Its Place.

I Have Come To Communism Because Of Daddy Stalin And Nobody Must Come And Tell Me That I Mustn’t Read Stalin. I Read Him When It Was Very Bad To Read Him. That Was Another Time. And Because I’m Not Very Bright, And A Hard-headed Person, I Keep On Reading Him. Especially In This New Period, Now That It Is Worse To Read Him. Then, As Well As Now, I Still Find A Seri Of Things That Are Very Good.