[...] If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. [...]
[..] Those who, the better to justify their tyrannies, set in opposition labor and culture will not make us forget that whatever subjects the intelligence enchains labor, and vice versa. When intelligence is gagged, the worker is soon subjugated, just as when the proletariat is enslaved the intelle…
[...] The first way is characteristic of bourgeois intellectuals who are willing that their privileges should be paid for by the enslavement of workers. They often say that they are defending freedom, but they are defending first of all the privileges freedom gives to them, and to them alone. [...]
When, after Marx, the rumor began to spread and gain strength that freedom was a bourgeois hoax, a single word was misplaced in that definition, and we are still paying for that mistake through the convulsions of our time. For it should have been said merely that bourgeois freedom was a hoax—and no…
[...] But it seems to me that there is another ambition that ought to belong to all writers: to bear witness and shout aloud, every time it is possible, insofar as our talent allows, for those who are enslaved as we are. That is the very ambition you questioned in your article, I shall consistently…
