Medvedev, who began as a demotic poet
organizations specializing in these tactics tend not to produce mass engagement by a movement’s true-believing base. The obverse is also true. It’s nearly impossible to run a tent city, for instance, and at the same time get a well-sourced policy paper
The audience, which leaned romantic, grumbled at the pessimism. The speakers demurred. That’s just how it is, they averred. We just have to do all of them.
I’m chary of speaking too confidently about South Africa: my impression of things is pieced together from fragments of reportage and testimony.
